Learning Statistics through Playing Cards

By Thomas R. Knapp

Book Overview

By using a simple pack of playing cards, the author of this book explains the important concepts of statistics covering many of the topics included in introductory statistics courses. He demonstrates: populations and variables; parameters; percentages; probability and sampling; sampling distribution; estimation; hypothesis testing; and two-by-two tables. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises to help the student manipulate the concept under discussion. Answers are included at the back of the text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761901086
• ISBN13: 9780761901082
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.8"