Understandable Statistics

by Brase, Charles Henry; Brase, Corrinne Pellillo

• ISBN13: 9780618496587
• ISBN10: 0618496580
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-04
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Understandable Statistics is a thorough, yet approachable statistics text. Designed to help students overcome their apprehension about statistics, the text provides guidance and informal advice showing students the links between statistics and their everyday lives. To reinforce this approach, the book integrates real-life data selected from a variety of sources including journals, periodicals, newspapers and the Internet. The use of graphing calculators, Excel, Minitab and SPSS is covered, but not required. A set of technology resources accompanying the Eighth Edition, designed to provide reinforcement for struggling students, includes a market-leading video and DVD series, interactive lessons, and simulations.

Table of Contents

Getting Started Focus Problem: Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?

What Is Statistics?

Random Samples

Introduction to Experimental Design

Organizing Data Focus Problem: Say It with Pictures

Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs

Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics

Stem-and-Leaf Displays

Averages and Variation Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage

Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean

Measures of Variation

Mean and Standard Deviation of Grouped Data

Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 1-3

Elementary Probability Theory Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie?

What is Probability?

Some Probability Rules--Compound Events

Trees and Counting Techniques

The Binomial Probability: Distribution and Related Topics Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert or Extrovert?

Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions

Binomial Probabilities

Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution

The Geometric and Poissson Probability Distributions

Normal Distributions Focus Problem: Large Auditorium Shows: How Many Will Attend?

Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions

Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution

Areas Under Any Normal Curve

Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 4-6

Introduction to Sampling Distributions Focus Problem: Impulse Buying

Sampling Distributions

The Central Limit Theorem

Sampling Distribution for Proportions

Estimation Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks

Estimating m When o Is Known

Estimating m When o Is Unknown

Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution

Choosing the Sample Size

Estimating m1-m2 and p1-p2

Hypothesis Testing Focus Problem: Benford\'s Law: The Importance of Being Number 1

Introduction to Statistical Tests

Testing the Mean m

Testing a Proportion p

Tests Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples)

Testing m1-m2 and p1-p2 Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 7-9

Correlation and Regression Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate

Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation

Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination

Inferences for Correlation and Regression

Multiple Regression

Chi Square and F Distributions Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeology Part I. Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution

Chi-Square: Tests of Independence

Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit

Testing and Estimating a Single Variance or Standard Deviation Part II. Inferences Using the F Distribution

Testing Two Variances

One-Way ANOVA: Comparing Several Sample Means

Introduction to Two-Way ANOVA

Nonparametric Statistics Focus Problem: How Cold? Compared to What?

The Sign Test for Matched Pairs

The Rank-Sum Test

Spearman Rank Correlation

Runs Test for Randomness

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