Fundamentals of Statistics

by Sullivan, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780131569874
• ISBN10: 0131569872
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Drawing on the author's extensive teaching experience and background in statistics and mathematics, this book is designed to promote reader success while maintaining the integrity of subject matter. The author's main goals are to generate and maintain reader interest, promote reader success and confidence, and provide extensive and effective opportunity for practice.Chapter topics include: Data Collection; Probability; Hypothesis Testing; The Binomial Probability Distributions; The Normal Probability Distribution; Confidence Intervals about a Single Parameter; and more.For those who are interested in learning statistics as it relates to their lives.

Table of Contents

Getting the Information You Need

Data Collection1

Introduction to the Practice of Statistics1

Observational Studies, Experiments, and Simple RandomSampling1

Other Effective Sampling Methods1

Sources of Error in Sampling1

The Design of Experiments

Chapter ReviewCase Study: Chrysalises for Cash (on CD)

Descriptive Statistics

Organizing and Summarizing Data

Organizing Qualitative Data

Organizing Quantitative Data

Graphical Misrepresentations of Data

Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Day the Sky Roared (on CD)

Numerically Summarizing Data

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Dispersion

Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from GroupedData

Measures of Position

The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots

Chapter ReviewCase Study:Who Was +A Mourner'? (on CD)

Describing the Relation between Two Variables

Scatter Diagrams and Correlation

Least-Squares Regression

The Coefficient of Determination

Chapter ReviewCase Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence (on CD)

Probability and Probability Distributions

Probability

Probability Rules

The Addition Rule and Complements

Independence and the Multiplication Rule

Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule

Counting Techniques

Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag (on CD)

Discrete Probability Distributions

Discrete Random Variables

The Binomial Probability Distribution

Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Voyage of the St.Andrew (on CD)

The Normal Probability Distribution

Properties of the Normal Distribution

The Standard Normal Distribution

Applications of the Normal Distribution

Assessing Normality

The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution

Chapter ReviewCase Study: A Tale of Blood, Chemistry, and Health (on CD)Putting It All Together: Probability

Inference: From Samples to Population

Sampling Distributions

Distribution of the Sample Mean

Distribution of the Sample Proportion

Chapter ReviewCase Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median (on CD)

Estimating the Value of a Parameter Using Confidence Intervals

The Logic in Constructing Confidence Intervals about a Population Mean Where the Population Standard Deviation is Known

Confidence Intervals about a Population Mean in Practice Where the Population Standard Deviation is Unknown

Confidence Intervals about a Population Proportion

Putting It All Together:Which Method Do I Use?

Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Search for a Fire-Safe Cigarette (on CD)

Testing Claims Regarding a Parameter

The Language of Hypothesis Testing

Testing Claims about a Population Mean Assuming the Population Standard Deviation Is Known

Testing Claims about a Population Mean in Practice

Testing Claims about a Population Proportion

Putting It All Together:Which Metho

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