. Elements of statistics. Statistics. Prefi. ace THIS BOOK HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE THE BASIS OF AN introductory course in probability and statistics for the college and university student. It includes material which has been tried out in many classes and by several instructors for almost a decade. The instructor using the book as a text or the student interested in the subject will find that college algebra is a necessary and suffi- cient prerequisite for this course, which aims to teach modern but ele- mentary ideas, methods of reasoning, and methods of analysis funda- mental but not pe
. Elements of statistics. Statistics. Prefi. ace THIS BOOK HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE THE BASIS OF AN introductory course in probability and statistics for the college and university student. It includes material which has been tried out in many classes and by several instructors for almost a decade. The instructor using the book as a text or the student interested in the subject will find that college algebra is a necessary and suffi- cient prerequisite for this course, which aims to teach modern but ele- mentary ideas, methods of reasoning, and methods of analysis funda- mental but not peculiar to any particular specialized field. Once the student has acquired a background of elementary methods, prob- ability, and frequency distributions, he can be taught some of the simpler sampling statistics in common use today. Thus, he may learn their importance as well as their application. The serious stu- dent will find included in this book problems to provoke thought and provide practice in statistical methods and reasoning. Some colleges and universities offer statistics courses—often with graduate credit—in which the elementary concepts and methods are not assumed to be known and hence are taught during the first part of the course. It seems to me that one general course in probability and statistics, with emphasis on statistical reasoning and modern methods, helps to avoid useless duplication of mstruction. It also leaves time in subsequent courses to do more advanced work in spe- cialized fields. Such an introductory course also is rapidly becoming a necessary part of a student's education even if he does not use sta- tistics directly in his specialized field. It is helpful to the students during the studies of sampling to pro- vide them with some mathematical models of populations so that they can obtain sampling experiences which—for a whole class—empirically verify for them the sampling distributions given in some of the tables which they will be using.
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