01462nam a22001457a 4500020001800000082001000018100003200028245005400060250000800114260004400122300003100166505003700197520106700234650001501301  a9780199148011  a519.5  aUpton, Graham and Cook, Ian  aIntroducing StatisticscGraham Upton and Ian Cook  a2nd  aNew YorkbOxford University Pressc2001  aix,470 Pagesb28x18 cmbPB  aIncludes Index and Illustrations  aAn updated version to meet the requirements of the new A Level specifications being offered by all the awarding bodies in 2000. Chapters are the same as before but there is extra material within them. Chapter 1 now includes several examples of the graphical comparision of similar data sets. This chapter includes five new sections and ends with a discussion of the (largely unwanted) characteristics to be expected in real data. Chapter 2 has been augmented by sections on the use of coded values, Bayes' theorem is included in Chapter 4, and the method for determining the distribution of a simple function of a random variable is now included in Chapter 9. In Chapter 14 there is a new section dealing with properties of regression line estimators and, later, a subsection on nonsense correlation. Some questions have been introduced on sampling in Chapter 3. These questions are somewhat open-ended, as were a number of existing questions that were not given answers in the first edition. In this edition possible answers are now provided to these questions.  aStatistics