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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780205646425 | 0205646425
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 4/1/2008
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Teaches students how to be better consumers of information by showing the role of statistics in many aspects of everyday life. KEY POINTS: Uses real examples and case studies to build an understanding of the core ideas of statistics that can be applied to the social sciences. Includes data from real sources to help students become better critical thinkers and decision makers.
Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, Third Edition, teaches students how to be better consumers of information by showing the role... MORE
Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, Third Edition, teaches students how to be better consumers of information by showing the role... MORE
| Preface | |
| Supplements To the Student: How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course | |
| Applications Index | |
| Speaking of Statistics | |
| What Is/Are Statistics? | |
| Sampling | |
| Types of Statistical Studies | |
| Should You Believe a Statistical Study? | |
| Focus on Sociology: Does Daycare Breed Bullies? | |
| Focus on Public Health: Is Your ... MORE | |
| Measurement in Statistics | |
| Data Types and Levels of Measurement | |
| Dealing with Errors | |
| Uses of Percentages in Statistics | |
| Index Numbers | |
| Focus on Politics: Who Benefits from a Tax Cut? | |
| Focus on Economics: Is our Standard of Living Improving? | |
| Visual Displays of Data | |
| Frequency Tables | |
| Picturing Distributions of Data | |
| Graphics in the Media | |
| A Few Cautions About Graphics | |
| Using Technology | |
| Focus on History: Can War Be Described with a Graph? | |
| Focus on Environment: How Can We Visualize Global Warming? | |
| Describing Data | |
| What Is Average? | |
| Shapes of Distributions | |
| Measures of Variation | |
| Statistical Paradoxes | |
| Using Technology | |
| Focus on The Stock Market: Whatrsquo;s Average About the Dow? | |
| Focus on Economics: Are the Rich Getting Richer? | |
| A Normal World | |
| What Is Normal? | |
| Properties of the Normal Distribution | |
| The Central Limit Theorem | |
| Using Technology | |
| Focus on Education: What Can We Learn from SAT Trends? | |
| Focus on Psychology: Are We Smarter than Our Parents? | |
| Probability in Statistics | |
| The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance 226 | |
| Basics of Probability | |
| Probabilities with Large Numbers | |
| Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy | |
| Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section) &n | |
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