Fundamentals of Statistics
ISBN: 9780131569874 | 0131569872
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback w/CD
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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For one semester algebra-based Introductory Statistics Courses.This very popular text promotes student success while maintaining the statistical integrity of the course. Three objectives motivate this text: (1) to generate and maintain student interest, thereby promoting student success and confidence; (2) to provide extensive and effective opportunity for student practice; (3) to permit flexibility of teaching styles. This revision follows the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) for the college introductor... MORE
| Getting the Information You Need | |
| Data Collection1 | |
| Introduction to the Practice of Statistics1 | |
| Observational Studies, Experiments, and Simple RandomSampling1 | |
| Other Effective Sampling Methods1 | |
| Sources of Error in Sampling1 | |
| The Design of Experiments | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: Chrysalises for Cash (on CD) | |
| Descriptive Statistics | ... MORE|
| Organizing and Summarizing Data | |
| Organizing Qualitative Data | |
| Organizing Quantitative Data | |
| Graphical Misrepresentations of Data | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Day the Sky Roared (on CD) | |
| Numerically Summarizing Data | |
| Measures of Central Tendency | |
| Measures of Dispersion | |
| Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from GroupedData | |
| Measures of Position | |
| The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study:Who Was +A Mourner'? (on CD) | |
| Describing the Relation between Two Variables | |
| Scatter Diagrams and Correlation | |
| Least-Squares Regression | |
| The Coefficient of Determination | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence (on CD) | |
| Probability and Probability Distributions | |
| Probability | |
| Probability Rules | |
| The Addition Rule and Complements | |
| Independence and the Multiplication Rule | |
| Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule | |
| Counting Techniques | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag (on CD) | |
| Discrete Probability Distributions | |
| Discrete Random Variables | |
| The Binomial Probability Distribution | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Voyage of the St.Andrew (on CD) | |
| The Normal Probability Distribution | |
| Properties of the Normal Distribution | |
| The Standard Normal Distribution | |
| Applications of the Normal Distribution | |
| Assessing Normality | |
| The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: A Tale of Blood, Chemistry, and Health (on CD)Putting It All Together: Probability | |
| Inference: From Samples to Population | |
| Sampling Distributions | |
| Distribution of the Sample Mean | |
| Distribution of the Sample Proportion | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median (on CD) | |
| Estimating the Value of a Parameter Using Confidence Intervals | |
| The Logic in Constructing Confidence Intervals about a Population Mean Where the Population Standard Deviation is Known | |
| Confidence Intervals about a Population Mean in Practice Where the Population Standard Deviation is Unknown | |
| Confidence Intervals about a Population Proportion | |
| Putting It All Together:Which Method Do I Use? | |
| Chapter ReviewCase Study: The Search for a Fire-Safe Cigarette (on CD) | |
| Testing Claims Regarding a Parameter | |
| The Language of Hypothesis Testing | |
| Testing Claims about a Population Mean Assuming the Population Standard Deviation Is Known | |
| Testing Claims about a Population Mean in Practice | |
| Testing Claims about a Population Proportion | |
| Putting It All Together:Which Metho | |
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