Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods

by Rossman,Allan J.

• ISBN13: 9780534391102
• ISBN10: 0534391109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This text contains a balanced mixture of investigations and exposition. The activities lead students to explore and discover statistical ideas and techniques, while the exposition explains and reinforces what the activities are designed to reveal. A combination of practice, homework, and application problems all focus on actual studies. The book is intended for a course that provides mathematically inclined students with a data-oriented and conceptually based introduction to the fundamental ideas and techniques of statistics. Additional resources are available from the authors at http://www.rossmanchance.com/iscam/.

Table of Contents

Comparisons And Conclusions

Summarizing Categorical Data

Analyzing Categorical Data

Confounding

Designing Experiments

Assessing Statistical Significance

Probability and Counting Methods

Fisher's Exact Test

Comparisons With Quantitative Variables

Summarizing Quantitative Data

Statistical Significance

Sampling From Populations

Selecting Samples from Populations I

Sampling from a Process

Exact Binomial Inference

Sampling from a Population II

Models And Sampling Distributions

Models of Quantitative Data

Applying the Normal Probability Model

Distributions of Sample Counts and Proportions

Distributions of Sample Means

Bootstrapping

Comparing Two Populations

Comparing Two Samples on a Categorical Response

Randomized Experiments Revisited

Comparing Two Samples on a Quantitative Response

Randomized Experiments Revisited

Other Statistics

Comparing Several Populations, Exploring Relationships

Two Categorical Variables

Comparing Several Population Means

Relationships Between Quantitative Variables

Inference for Regression

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