Intro Stats

by De Veaux, Richard D.; Velleman, Paul F.; Bock, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780321500458
• ISBN10: 0321500458
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover w/CD
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Addison Wesley

Summary

KEY MESSAGE:Intro Stats, Third Edition, continues and extends the successful innovations pioneered in the DeVeaux/Velleman/Bock books, teaching statistics and statistical thinking for today's readers. This book uses a fun, conversational writing style, real data, and short, accessible chapters. The consistent Think/Show/Tell model for worked examples reinforces thinking about how to approach a statistics problem, showing how to solve it, and reporting the conclusion in the context of the problem. KEY TOPICS: Exploring and Understanding Data; Exploring Relationships between Variables; Gathering Data; Randomness and Probability; From the Data at Hand to the World At Large; Learning about the World; Inference When Variables are Related MARKET: For all readers interested in Statistics.

Table of Contents

Exploring and Understanding Data

Stats Starts Here

Data

Displaying and Describing Categorical Data

Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Data

Understanding and Comparing Distributions

The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model Review of Part I Exploring and Understanding Data

Exploring Relationships between Variables

Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation

Linear Regression

Regression Wisdom

Re-expressing Data: Get It Straight!Review of Part II Exploring Relationships Between Variables

Gathering Data

Understanding Randomness

Sample Surveys

Experiments and Observational Studies

Review of Part III Gathering Data

Randomness and Probability

From Randomness to Probability

Probability Rules!

Random Variables

Probability Models

Review of Part IV Randomness and Probability

From the Data at Hand to the World At Large

Sampling Distribution Models

Confidence Intervals for Proportions

Testing Hypotheses about Proportions

More about Tests

Comparing Two Proportions

Review of Part V From the Data at Hand to the World at Large

Learning about the World

Inferences about Means

Comparing Means

Paired Samples and Blocks

Review of Part VI Learning About the World

Inference When Variables are Related

Comparing Counts

Inferences for Regression

Review of Part VII Inference When Variables Are Related

Analysis of Variance-on the CD

Multiple Regression-on the CD

Appendixes

Answers

Photo Acknowledgements

Index

Tables and Selected Formulas

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