Attacking Probability and Statistics Problems

by Kahn, David S.

• ISBN13: 9780486801445
• ISBN10: 0486801446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-11-16
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Concise and highly focused, this volume offers everything high school and beginning college students need to know to handle problems in probability and statistics. Numerous rigorously tested examples and coherent, to-the-point explanations are presented in an easy-to-follow format.
The treatment is organized in a way that permits readers to advance sequentially or skip around between chapters. An essential companion volume to the author's Attacking Trigonometry Problems and Attacking Problems in Logarithms and Exponential Functions, this book will equip students with the skills they will need to successfully approach the problems in probability and statistics that they will encounter on exams.

Author Biography

David S. Kahn is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Center for Science and Math Education at Stony Brook University. For more than 20 years, he has taught mathematics to students at a variety of levels. He is the author of Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC Exams, and his other Dover books are Attacking Trigonometry Problems and Attacking Problems in Logarithms and Exponential Functions.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Unit One Basic Probability

Unit Two Permutations and Combinations

Unit Three More Probability

Unit Four Conditional Probability

Unit Five Statistics Terms and Experimental Design

Unit Six Some Basics of Statistics

Unit Seven Center and Spread

Unit Eight Exploring Data and Introducing the z Score

Unit Nine Probability Distributions and More About the z Test

Unit Ten Confidence Intervals

Unit Eleven Hypothesis Testing

Unit Twelve Working with Two Samples, Correlation, and Regression

Appendix