Workshop Statistics : Discovery with Data

by Allan J. Rossman

• ISBN13: 9780387944975
• ISBN10: 0387944974
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK, INC.

Summary

The publication of the first editions of Workshop Statistics (part of the FIPSE and NSF funded Workshop Mathematics Project at Dickinson College) in its three versions established the texts as the most popular for courses stressing active learning in introductory statistics. Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data 2nd edition features new pedagogical ideas that have proven to be successful with instructors and students. The Workshop approach fosters active learning, and eliminates the distinction between the conventional lecture and laboratory. Using this method every student is actively engaged in learning the material through reading, thinking, discussing, computing, interpreting, and writing. This approach is also well suited to collaborative learning, and stresses the importance of developing communication skills.

Table of Contents

List of Activities
Preface
Data and Variables	p. 3
Displaying and Describing Distributions	p. 19
Measures of Center	p. 39
Measures of Spread	p. 55
Comparing Distributions	p. 71
Graphical Displays of Association	p. 93
Correlation Coefficient	p. 113
Least Squares Regression I	p. 131
Least Squares Regression II	p. 147
Relationships with Categorical Variables	p. 161
Random Sampling	p. 183
Sampling Distributions I: Confidence	p. 201
Sampling Distributions II: Significance	p. 215
Normal Distributions	p. 227
Central Limit Theorem	p. 247
Confidence Intervals I	p. 263
Confidence Intervals II	p. 279
Tests of Significance I	p. 295
Tests of Significance II	p. 309
Designing Experiments	p. 327
Comparing Two Proportions I	p. 341
Comparing Two Proportions II	p. 355
Inference for a Population Mean I	p. 369
Inference for a Population Mean II	p. 385
Comparing Two Means	p. 401
Table I: Standard Normal Probabilities	p. 427
Table II: t-Distribution Critical Values	p. 431
Appendix A: Listings of Hypothetical Data Sets	p. 433
Appendix B: Sources for Data Sets	p. 443
Index	p. 450
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