Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Statistics
1-1. Statistical and Critical Thinking
1-2. Types of Data
1-3. Collecting Sample Data
2. Exploring Data
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Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Statistics
1-1. Statistical and Critical Thinking
1-2. Types of Data
1-3. Collecting Sample Data
2. Exploring Data with Tables and Graphs
2-1. Frequency Distributions for Organizing and Summarizing Data
2-2. Histograms
2-3. Graphs That Enlighten and Graphs That Deceive
2-4. Scatterplots, Correlation, and Regression
3. Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data
3-1. Measures of Center
3-2. Measures of Variation
3-3. Measures of Relative Standing and Boxplots
4. Probability
4-1. Basic Concepts of Probability
4-2. Addition Rule and Multiplication Rule
4-3. Complements, Conditional Probability, and Bayes’ Theorem
4-4. Counting
4-5. Probabilities Through Simulations (download only)
5. Discrete Probability Distributions
5-1. Probability Distributions
5-2. Binomial Probability Distributions
5-3. Poisson Probability Distributions
6. Normal Probability Distributions
6-1. The Standard Normal Distribution
6-2. Real Applications of Normal Distributions
6-3. Sampling Distributions and Estimators
6-4. The Central Limit Theorem
6-5. Assessing Normality
6-6. Normal as Approximation to Binomial
7. Estimating Parameters and Determining Sample Sizes
7-1. Estimating a Population Proportion
7-2. Estimating a Population Mean
7-3. Estimating a Population Standard Deviation or Variance
7-4. Bootstrapping: Using Technology for Estimates
8. Hypothesis Testing
8-1. Basics of Hypothesis Testing
8-2. Testing a Claim About a Proportion
8-3. Testing a Claim About a Mean
8-4. Testing a Claim About a Standard Deviation or Variance
9. Inferences from Two Samples
9-1. Two Proportions
9-2. Two Means: Independent Samples
9-3. Two Dependent Samples (Matched Pairs)
10. Correlation and Regression
10-1. Correlation
10-2. Regression
10-3. Rank Correlation
11. Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance
11-1. Goodness-of-Fit
11-2. Contingency Tables
11-3. One-Way Analysis of Variance
Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Data Sets
Appendix C: Websites and Bibliography of Books
Appendix D: Answers to Odd-Numbered Section Exercises
Credits
Index of Applications
Index
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