Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.).(Brief Article)(Book Review)

American Statistician, The, August, 2005 by Anderson-Cook, Christine M.; Dobler, Carolyn Pillers

Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.).

J. K. LINDSEY. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, xiv 321 pp., $119.50 (H), ISBN: 0-19-852894-9; $54.50 (P), ISBN: 0-19-852895-7.

The second edition of this book, like the first published in 1995, focuses on scientific inference for situations where variability arises primarily from the natural state of the phenomenon under study. The author has an extensive website with datasets and R code for all examples at http://www.luc.ac.be/~jlindsey. The new edition provides additional pages that further develop some details of the existing material. Some of the materials are reorganized to improve flow and flexiblity so that instructors can incorporate their own examples. The book is...

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