Internet Companion for Statistics Guide and Activities for the Web

by Larsen, Michael D.

• ISBN13: 9780534423568
• ISBN10: 0534423566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-25
• Publisher: Duxbury Press

Summary

As the catalog of resources on the Internet grows, the opportunities for learning expand, as do the difficulty of evaluating Web sites. THE INTERNET COMPANION FOR STATISTICS provides educators and students with an organized, clear, and reliable interface to the Internet. An excellent accompaniment to a main text, this book includes numerous examples and exercises that refer to motivating online material related directly to specific topics covered in the introductory statistics course. Helpful exercises include numerical, short answer, and expository problems related to the appropriate Web sites as listed in the book. On the accompanying Book Companion Web Site, you will find regularly updated links, as well as additional resources for quickly and effectively integrating the Internet into your Introductory Statistics course.

Table of Contents

Part I: INTRODUCTION

1. Purpose of Book

2. How to Use the Book

3. Outline of Book and Online Material

Part II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

4. Univariate Statistics

Center

Spread

Transformations

Examples

5. Bivariate Statistics

Scatterplots

Correlation

Regression

Transformations

6. Categorical Data

One Variable on Two or More Groups

Two or More Variables

Simpson's Paradox

Part III: RESEARCH DESIGNS

7. Experiments

8. Surveys, Including Opinion Polls

9. Observational Studies

10. Examples

Cancer Study

AIDS Study

Economic Study

School Choice Study

Psychology Study

Part IV: PROBABILITY AND MODELS

11. Basic Probability

Sets and Long Run Relative Frequency

Probability Rules

Conditional Probability and Bayes' Theorem

12. Distributions and Random Variables

Binomial Random Variables

Geometric Random Variables

Normal Random Variables

13. Theorems

Law of Large Numbers

Central Limit Theorem

14. Examples

The Birthday Problem

The Monte Hall Problem, or "Let's Make a Deal

Card Problems

Random Number Generators

Part V: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

15. Confidence Intervals

Inference for a Single Mean

Inference Concerning Two Means

Inference for a Single Proportion

Inference Concerning Two Proportions

16. Hypothesis Tests

Inference for a Single Mean

Inference Concerning Two Means

Inference for a Single Proportion

Inference Concerning Two Proportions

Inference Concerning Tables of Counts

17. Correlation and Regression

18. Nonparametrics

Part VI: CASE STUDIES

19. Economics

20. Science

21. Biology/Medicine

22. Gambling/Horse Racing

23. Census