Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Statistics is the study of data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Statistical bias is a characteristic of a statistical technique or its findings in which the expected value deviates from the actual root quantitative p…
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Chapter 1.3, Problem 21PB

Shopping sales data file Construct a data file describing the purchasing behavior of the five people, described below, who visit a shopping mall. Enter purchase amounts each spent on clothes, sporting goods, books, and music CDs as the data. Customer 1 spent $49 on clothes and $16 on music CDs, customer 4 spent $92 on books, and the other three customers did not buy anything.

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Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)

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