Young / Valero-Mora / Friendly Visual Statistics

Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-16541-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

A visually intuitive approach to statistical data analysis
Visual Statistics brings the most complex and advanced statisticalmethods within reach of those with little statistical training byusing animated graphics of the data. Using ViSta: The VisualStatistics System-developed by Forrest Young and Pedro Valero-Moraand available free of charge on the Internet-students can easilycreate fully interactive visualizations from relevant mathematicalstatistics, promoting perceptual and cognitive understanding of thedata's story. An emphasis is placed on a paradigm for understandingdata that is visual, intuitive, geometric, and active, rather thanone that relies on convoluted logic, heavy mathematics, systems ofalgebraic equations, or passive acceptance of results.
A companion Web site complements the book by further demonstratingthe concept of creating interactive and dynamic graphics. The bookprovides users with the opportunity to view the graphics in adynamic way by illustrating how to analyze statistical data andexplore the concepts of visual statistics.
Visual Statistics addresses and features the followingtopics:
* Why use dynamic graphics?
* A history of statistical graphics
* Visual statistics and the graphical user interface
* Visual statistics and the scientific method
* Character-based statistical interface objects
* Graphics-based statistical interfaces
* Visualization for exploring univariate data
This is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in dataanalysis and regression, for students majoring or minoring instatistics, mathematics, science, engineering, and computerscience, as well as for graduate-level courses in mathematics. Thebook is also ideal as a reference/self-study guide for engineers,scientists, and mathematicians.
With contributions by highly regarded professionals in the field,Visual Statistics not only improves a student's understanding ofstatistics, but also builds confidence to overcome problems thatmay have previously been intimidating.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Forrest W.

Valero-Mora, Pedro M.

Friendly, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: INTRODUCTION.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Examples.
PART II: SEE DATA-THE PROCESS.
Chapter 3. Interfaces and Environments.
Chapter 4. Tools and Techniques.
PART III: SEEING DATA.
Chapter 5. Seeing Frequency Data.
Chapter 6. Seeing Univariate Data.
Chapter 7. Seeing Bivariate Data.
Chapter 8. Seeing Multivariate Data.
Chapter 9. Seeing Magnitude Data that have Missing Values
PART IV: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 10. Theoretical Foundations.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

The late FORREST W. YOUNG, PhD, was Professor Emeritus ofQuantitative Psychology at The University of North Carolina atChapel Hill. As a result of a ten-year research project, Dr. Youngand his students created ViSta: The Visual Statistics System. Heacted as a professional consultant for the SAS Institute, Inc.,Statistical Sciences, Inc., and Bell Telephone Laboratories. Heauthored three books and numerous journal articles. He received hisPhD in psychometrics from the University of Southern California,Los Angeles.
PEDRO M. VALERO-MORA, PhD, is Professor of DataProcessing at the University of Valencia in Spain. He is the authorof several research papers. He received his PhD in methodology inthe behavioral sciences from the University of Valencia inSpain.
MICHAEL FRIENDLY, PhD, is Professor in the Department ofPsychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hereceived his PhD in psychometrics and cognitive psychology fromPrinceton University. He is the author of two books and numerousresearch papers.