JMP Start Statistics - 6th Edition by John Sall & Mia L Stephens & Ann Lehman (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This book provides hands-on tutorials with just the right amount of conceptual and motivational material to illustrate how to use the intuitive interface for data analysis in JMP. Each chapter features concept-specific tutorials, examples, brief reviews of concepts, step-by-step illustrations, and exercises. Updated for JMP 13, JMP Start Statistics, Sixth Edition includes many new features, including: The redesigned Formula Editor. New and improved ways to create formulas in JMP directly from the data table or dialogs. Interface updates, including improved menu layout. Updates and enhancements in many analysis platforms. New ways to get data into JMP and to save and share JMP results. Many new features that make it easier to use JMP.

Review Quotes

"For new JMP users, whether students or practitioners, this book is a hospitable and accessible introduction to the process and logic of statistical investigations, as well as to the latest release of JMP. For veteran users, JMP Start Statistics, Sixth Edition will introduce new functionality and may very well reveal fresh insights." -- Robert Carver, Professor of Business Administration "Stonehill College"

"JMP Start Statistics is both a software manual as well as a statistics text. It goes beyond the basics and includes many, many real data sets to illustrate different types of statistical analyses, as well as different areas of application. Anyone using JMP should have this book close at hand." -- Ronald D. Snee, PhD, Snee Associates, LLC "Newark, Delaware"

"Like previous editions, this new edition emphasizes how JMP promotes better analysis by linking statistical modeling to visual displays. It illustrates how JMP's interactive visual displays go beyond static graphics and encourage the sort of data exploration that leads to discoveries." -- Robert A. Stine, Professor of Statistics "The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania"

"This book is ideal for anyone who wants to learn JMP and some basic statistical thinking. It covers material that relates to introductory statistics, modeling, process control, and design of experiments. As such, the book will greatly benefit industrial courses that cover these areas, and it will provide an excellent adjunct to academic courses." -- Marie Gaudard, Statistical Consultant "Professor Emerita of Statistics"

About the Author

John Sall is a co-founder of SAS Institute Inc., where he currently serves as the Executive Vice President and the head of the JMP Business Division. He received a bachelor's degree from Beloit College and a master's degree from Northern Illinois University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University in 2003. John has held several positions in the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and was named an ASA Fellow in 1998.