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9780669355130

Understandable Statistics Concepts and Methods

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    9780669355130

  • ISBN10:

    0669355135

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-12-02
  • Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Table of Contents

Getting Started
1(22)
Focus Problems: Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?
1(1)
What Is Statistics?
1(16)
Calculators and Computers in Statistics
17(1)
Where Will I Use Statistics?
18(5)
Summary
20(1)
Important Words and Symbols
20(1)
Chapter Review Problems
21(2)
Organizing Data
23(84)
Focus Problem: Say It with Pictures
23(1)
Random Samples
23(14)
Graphs
37(16)
Histograms and Frequency Distributions
53(25)
Stem-and-Leaf Displays
78(29)
Summary
88(1)
Important Words and Sybols
88(1)
Chapter Review Problems
89(6)
Data Highlights
95(3)
Linking Concepts
98(2)
Using Technology
100(7)
Averages and Variations
107(78)
Focus Problem: Major League Baseball: How Much Do Players Earn?
107(1)
Mode, Median, and Mean
107(13)
Measures of Variation
120(20)
Mean and Standard Deviation of Grouped Data
140(12)
Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots
152(33)
Summary
167(1)
Important Words and Symbols
168(1)
Chapter Review Problems
168(4)
Data Highlights
172(2)
Linking Concepts
174(2)
Using Technology
176(9)
Elementary Probability Theory
185(76)
Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie?
185(1)
What Is Probability?
186(11)
Some Probability Rules---Compound Events
197(24)
Trees and Counting Techniques
221(16)
Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions
237(24)
Summary
249(1)
Important Words and Symbols
249(1)
Chapter Review Problems
250(5)
Data Highlights
255(2)
Linking Concepts
257(1)
Using Technology
258(3)
The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics
261(64)
Focus Problem: Personality Types
261(1)
Binomial Experiments
262(6)
The Binomial Distribution
268(12)
Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution
280(13)
The Geometric and Poisson Probability Distributions
293(32)
Summary
308(1)
Important Words and Symbols
308(1)
Chapter Review Problems
309(3)
Data Highlights
312(3)
Linking Concepts
315(2)
Using Technology
317(8)
Normal Distributions
325(76)
Focus Problems: Attendance at Exhibition Shows
325(1)
Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions
326(24)
Standard Units and the Standard Normal Distribution
350(12)
Areas Under the Standard Normal Curve
362(11)
Areas Under Any Normal Curve
373(28)
Summary
386(1)
Important Words and Symbols
386(1)
Chapter Review Problems
387(3)
Data Highlights
390(3)
Linking Concepts
393(2)
Using Technology
395(6)
Introduction to Sampling Distributions
401(42)
Focus Problem: Impulse Bying
402(1)
Sampling Distributions
402(7)
The Central Limit Theorem
409(13)
Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution
422(21)
Summary
430(1)
Important Words and Symbols
431(1)
Chapter Review Problems
431(3)
Data Highlights
434(2)
Linking Concepts
436(2)
Using Technology
438(5)
Estimation
443(86)
Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks
443(1)
Estimating μ with Large Samples
444(15)
Estimating μ with Small Samples
459(11)
Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution
470(11)
Choosing the Sample Size
481(8)
Estimating μ1--μ2 and p1--p2
489(40)
Summary
507(1)
Important Words and Symbols
508(1)
Chapter Review Problems
508(6)
Data Highlights
514(5)
Linking Concepts
519(2)
Using Technology
521(8)
Hypothesis Testing
529(126)
Focus Problem: Business Opportunities and Start-Up Costs
529(1)
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
530(17)
Tests Involving the Mean μ (Large Samples)
547(12)
The P Value in Hypothesis Testing
559(11)
Tests Involving the Mean μ (Small Samples)
570(15)
Tests Involving a Proportion
585(9)
Tests Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples)
594(16)
Testing Differences of Two Means or Two Proportions (Independent Samples)
610(45)
Summary
638(1)
Important Words and Symbols
639(1)
Chapter Review Problems
639(5)
Data Highlights
644(1)
Linking Concepts
645(3)
Using Technology
648(7)
Regression and Correlation
655(92)
Focus Problem: Getting the Best Price for a New Pickup Truck
655(1)
Introduction to Paired Data and Scatter Diagrams
656(9)
Linear Regression and Confidence Bounds for Prediction
665(22)
The Linear Correlation Coefficient
687(18)
Testing the Correlations Coefficient
705(7)
Multiple Regression
712(35)
Summary
732(1)
Important Words and Symbols
733(1)
Chapter Review Problems
733(3)
Data Highlights
736(1)
Linking Concepts
736(2)
Using Technology
738(9)
Chi-Square and F Distributions
747(64)
Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeology
747(1)
Chi-Square: Tests of Independence
748(13)
Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit
761(8)
Testing and Estimating Variances and Standard Deviations
769(11)
ANOVA: Comparing Several Sample Means
780(31)
Summary
799(1)
Important Words and Symbols
799(1)
Chapter Review Problems
799(3)
Data Highlights
802(1)
Linking Concepts
803(2)
Using Technology
805(6)
Nonparametric Statistics
811(1)
Focus Problem: Are the Nation's Highways Getting Safer to Drive?
811(1)
The Sign Tests
812(12)
The Rank-Sum Test
824(8)
Spearman Rank Correlations
832(13)
Summary
845(1)
Important Words and Symbols
846(1)
Chapter Review Problems
846(2)
Data Highlights
848(1)
Linking Concepts
849
Appendix 1 Additional Topics A1
Part I Bayes's Theorem
A1
Part II The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution
A5
Appendix II Tables A10
Table 1 Random Numbers
A10
Table 2 Factorials
A11
Table 3 Binomial Coefficients Cn,r
A12
Table 4 Binomial Distribution Cn,rpr qn-r
A13
Table 5 Poisson Probability Distribution
A17
Table 6 Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution
A23
Table 7 Student's t Distribution
A24
Table 8 Critical Values of Pearson Product-Moment Correlation, r
A25
Table 9 The X2 Distribution
A26
Table 10 The F Distribution 5%
A27
Table 11 Critical Values for Spearman Rank Correlation, rs
A30
Appendix III Answers and Key Steps to Odd-Numbered Problems A31
Index A125

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