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Statistics is easy! 2nd edition. (English) Zbl 1457.62010

Publisher’s description: Statistics is the activity of inferring results about a population given a sample. Historically, statistics books assume an underlying distribution to the data (typically, the normal distribution) and derive results under that assumption. Unfortunately, in real life, one cannot normally be sure of the underlying distribution. For that reason, this book presents a distribution-independent approach to statistics based on a simple computational counting idea called resampling. This book explains the basic concepts of resampling, then system atically presents the standard statistical measures along with programs (in the language Python) to calculate them using resampling, and finally illustrates the use of the measures and programs in a case study. The text uses junior high school algebra and many examples to explain the concepts. The ideal reader has mastered at least elementary mathematics, likes to think procedurally, and is comfortable with computers.

MSC:

62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics
62A01 Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics
62E15 Exact distribution theory in statistics
62D05 Sampling theory, sample surveys
62-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics
97K70 Foundations and methodology of statistics (educational aspects)
00A06 Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.)

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