Preface | |
Supplements To the Student: How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course | |
Applications Index | |
Speaking of Statistics | |
What Is/Are Statistics? | |
Sampling | |
Types of Statistical Studies | |
Should You Believe a Statistical Study? | |
Focus on Sociology: Does Daycare Breed Bullies? | |
Focus on Public Health: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy? | |
Measurement in Statistics | |
Data Types and Levels of Measurement | |
Dealing with Errors | |
Uses of Percentages in Statistics | |
Index Numbers | |
Focus on Politics: Who Benefits from a Tax Cut? | |
Focus on Economics: Is our Standard of Living Improving? | |
Visual Displays of Data | |
Frequency Tables | |
Picturing Distributions of Data | |
Graphics in the Media | |
A Few Cautions About Graphics | |
Using Technology | |
Focus on History: Can War Be Described with a Graph? | |
Focus on Environment: How Can We Visualize Global Warming? | |
Describing Data | |
What Is Average? | |
Shapes of Distributions | |
Measures of Variation | |
Statistical Paradoxes | |
Using Technology | |
Focus on The Stock Market: Whatrsquo;s Average About the Dow? | |
Focus on Economics: Are the Rich Getting Richer? | |
A Normal World | |
What Is Normal? | |
Properties of the Normal Distribution | |
The Central Limit Theorem | |
Using Technology | |
Focus on Education: What Can We Learn from SAT Trends? | |
Focus on Psychology: Are We Smarter than Our Parents? | |
Probability in Statistics | |
The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance 226 | |
Basics of Probability | |
Probabilities with Large Numbers | |
Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy | |
Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section) &n | |
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