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Verbally conveys the key ideas and importance of statistics through real data and case studies of the real world and the media. May be a core or a supplemental text.
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This textbook examines statistical ideas and reasoning and their relevance to public policy and the human sciences from medicine to sociology. It is not intended as a treatment of statistical theory and methods, except as they apply to these issues. Moore (Purdue U.) discusses concepts such as sampling errors, the wording of questions, data ethics, displaying distributions with graphs, scatterplots, correlations, probability models, and the use and abuse of statistical inference. The previous edition's eight chapters have been separated into 25 short ones. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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