Statistics
Understandable Statistics, 8th Edition
ISBN-10: 0618496580 ISBN-13: 9780618496587
912 Pages Casebound
© 2006 Published
- Overview
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- About the Author
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- Table of Contents
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- Features
Table of Contents
Note: Each chapter concludes with a Summary, Important Words & Symbols, Chapter Review Problems, Data Highlights: Group Projects, Linking Concepts: Writing Projects, and Using Technology.
1. Getting Started
Focus Problem: Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?
1.1 What Is Statistics?
1.2 Random Samples
1.3 Introduction to Experimental Design
2. Organizing Data
Focus Problem: Say It with Pictures
2.1 Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs
2.2 Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics
2.3 Stem-and-Leaf Displays
3. Averages and Variation
Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage
3.1 Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean
3.2 Measures of Variation
3.3 Mean and Standard Deviation of Grouped Data
3.4 Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 1-3
4. Elementary Probability Theory
Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie?
4.1 What is Probability?
4.2 Some Probability Rules--Compound Events
4.3 Trees and Counting Techniques
5. The Binomial Probability: Distribution and Related Topics
Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert or Extrovert?
5.1 Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions
5.2 Binomial Probabilities
5.3 Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution
5.4 The Geometric and Poissson Probability Distributions
6. Normal Distributions
Focus Problem: Large Auditorium Shows: How Many Will Attend?
6.1 Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions
6.2 Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution
6.3 Areas Under Any Normal Curve
6.4 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 4-6
7. Introduction to Sampling Distributions
Focus Problem: Impulse Buying
7.1 Sampling Distributions
7.2 The Central Limit Theorem
7.3 Sampling Distribution for Proportions
8. Estimation
Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks
8.1 Estimating m When o Is Known
8.2 Estimating m When o Is Unknown
8.3 Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution
8.4 Choosing the Sample Size
8.5 Estimating m1-m2 and p1-p2
9. Hypothesis Testing
Focus Problem: Benford's Law: The Importance of Being Number 1
9.1 Introduction to Statistical Tests
9.2 Testing the Mean m
9.3 Testing a Proportion p
9.4 Tests Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples)
9.5 Testing m1-m2 and p1-p2
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 7-9
10. Correlation and Regression
Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate
10.1 Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation
10.2 Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination
10.3 Inferences for Correlation and Regression
10.4 Multiple Regression
11. Chi Square and F Distributions
Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeology
Part I. Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution
11.1 Chi-Square: Tests of Independence
11.2 Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit
11.3 Testing and Estimating a Single Variance or Standard Deviation
Part II. Inferences Using the F Distribution
11.4 Testing Two Variances
11.5 One-Way ANOVA: Comparing Several Sample Means
11.6 Introduction to Two-Way ANOVA
12. Nonparametric Statistics
Focus Problem: How Cold? Compared to What?
12.1 The Sign Test for Matched Pairs
12.2 The Rank-Sum Test
12.3 Spearman Rank Correlation
12.4 Runs Test for Randomness
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 10-12
Appendix I: Additional Topics
Part I: Bayes's Theorem
Part II: The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution
Appendix II: Tables
1. Random Numbers
2. Binomial Coefficients Cn,r
3. Binomial Probability Distribution Cn,rprqn-r
4. Poisson Probability Distribution
5. Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution
6. Critical Values for Student's t Distribution
7. The x2 Distribution
8. Critical Values for F Distribution
9. Critical Values for Spearman Rank Correlation, rs
10. Critical Values for Number of Runs R