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Statistics : Concepts and Controversies

ISBN: 9780716786368 | 0716786362
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Pub. Date: 11/9/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
The data analysis approach pioneered by David Moore was first introduced in this groundbreaking brief text for liberal arts students. By emphasizing concepts and applications to a wide range of fields (as opposed to formulas and computation) the text has become an influential bestseller, and its emphasis on ideas and data is now generally acknowledged as the most effective way to teach statistics to nonmathematical students. Featuring new coauthor, William Notz and new features, exercises, and applications, the sixth edition ofStastisics: Conce... MORE
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To the Teacher: Statistics as a Liberal Disciplinexi
Applications Indexxvii
Prelude: Making Sense of Statisticsxxi
Statistics and You: What Lies Ahead in This Bookxxvii
About the Authorsxxix
Part I: Producing Data
1(178)
Where Do Data Come From?
3(17)
Talking about data: individuals and variables
3(2)
Observational studies
5(3)
Sample surveys
8(3)
Census
11(1)
Experiments
11(2)
Statistics in Summary
13(1)
EESEE
14(1)
Exercises
14(4)
Exploring the Web
18(1)
Notes and Data Sources
18(2)
Samples, Good and Bad
20(13)
How to sample badly
20(2)
Simple random samples
22(5)
Can you trust a sample?
27(1)
Statistics in Summary
27(1)
EESEE
28(1)
Exercises
28(4)
Exploring the Web
32(1)
Notes and Data Sources
32(1)
What Do Samples Tell Us?
33(20)
From sample to population
34(1)
Sampling variability
35(3)
Margin of error and all that
38(3)
Confidence statements
41(1)
Sampling from large populations
42(1)
Statistical Controversies: Should Election Polls Be Banned?
43(1)
Statistics in Summary
44(1)
EESEE
44(1)
Exercises
44(7)
Exploring the Web
51(1)
Notes and Data Sources
51(2)
Sample Surveys in the Real World
53(23)
How sample surveys go wrong
53(1)
Sampling errors
54(2)
Nonsampling errors
56(3)
Wording questions
59(1)
How to live with nonsampling errors
60(1)
Sample design in the real world
61(3)
Questions to ask before you believe a poll
64(1)
Statistics in Summary
65(1)
EESEE
66(1)
Exercises
66(7)
Exploring the Web
73(1)
Notes and Data Sources
73(3)
Experiments, Good and Bad
76(19)
Talking about experiments
76(1)
How to experiment badly
77(3)
Randomized comparative experiments
80(2)
The logic of experimental design
82(1)
Statistical significance
83(1)
How to live with observational studies
84(2)
Statistics in Summary
86(1)
EESEE
87(1)
Exercises
87(6)
Exploring the Web
93(1)
Notes and Data Sources
93(2)
Experiments in the Real World
95(20)
Equal treatment for all
95(1)
Double-blind experiments
96(1)
Statistical Controversies: Is It or Isn't It a Placebo?
97(2)
Refusals, nonadherers, and dropouts
99(1)
Can we generalize?
100(3)
Experimental design in the real world
103(1)
Matched pairs and block designs
104(3)
Statistics in Summary
107(1)
EESEE
107(1)
Exercises
108(5)
Exploring the Web
113(1)
Notes and Data Sources
113(2)
Data Ethics
115(19)
First principles
115(2)
Institutional review boards
117(1)
Informed consent
117(1)
Confidentiality
118(2)
Clinical trials
120(2)
Statistical Controversies: Hope for Sale?
122(1)
Behavioral and social science experiments
123(2)
Statistics in Summary
125(1)
EESEE
125(1)
Exercises
125(6)
Exploring the Web
131(1)
Notes and Data Sources
132(2)
Measuring
134(20)
Measurement basics
134(2)
Know your variables
136(1)
Measurements valid and invalid
137(4)
Statistical Controversies: SAT Exams in College Admissions
141(1)
Measurements accurate and inaccurate
141(2)
Improving reliability, reducing bias
143(2)
Pity the poor psychologist
145(2)
Statistics in Summary
147(1)
EESEE
147(1)
Exercises
147(5)
Exploring the Web
152(1)
Notes and Data Sources
152(2)
Do the Numbers Make Sense?
154(25)
What didn't they tell us?
155(1)
Are the numbers consistent with each other?
156(1)
Are the numbers plausible?
157(1)
Are the numbers too good to be true?
158(1)
Is the arithmetic right?
158(3)
Is there a hidden agenda?
161(1)
Statistics in Summary
162(1)
EESEE
162(1)
Exercises
163(4)
Exploring the Web
167(1)
Notes and Data Sources
167(2)
Review
169(10)
Summary
170(1)
Review Exercises
171(5)
Projects
176(1)
Notes and Data Sources
177(2)
Part II: Organizing Data
179(170)
Graphs, Good and Bad
181(22)
Data tables
183(1)
Pie charts and bar graphs
184(3)
Beware the pictogram
187(1)
Change over time: line graphs
187(2)
Watch those scales!
189(2)
Making good graphs
191(2)
Statistics in Summary
193(1)
EESEE
193(1)
Exercises
193(9)
Notes and Data Sources
202(1)
Displaying Distributions with Graphs
203(20)
Histograms
205(3)
Interpreting histograms
208(5)
Stemplots
213(1)
Statistics in Summary
214(1)
EESEE
214(1)
Exercises
215(7)
Notes and Data Sources
222(1)
Describing Distributions with Numbers
223(25)
Median and quartiles
224(4)
The five-number summary and boxplots
228(3)
Mean and standard deviation
231(1)
Statistical Controversies: Income Inequality
232(4)
Choosing numerical descriptions
236(2)
Statistics in Summary
238(1)
EESEE
239(1)
Exercises
239(7)
Exploring the Web
246(1)
Notes and Data Sources
246(2)
Normal Distributions
248(20)
Density curves
251(1)
The center and spread of a density curve
252(1)
Normal distributions
253(2)
The 68--95--99.7 rule
255(2)
Standard scores
257(2)
Percentiles of normal distributions
259(1)
Statistics in Summary
260(1)
EESEE
261(1)
Exercises
261(6)
Exploring the Web
267(1)
Notes and Data Sources
267(1)
Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation
268(21)
Scatterplots
270(2)
Interpreting scatterplots
272(2)
Correlation
274(2)
Understanding correlation
276(3)
Statistics in Summary
279(1)
EESEE
280(1)
Exercises
280(8)
Exploring the Web
288(1)
Notes and Data Sources
288(1)
Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation
289(25)
Regression lines
290(2)
Regression equations
292(2)
Understanding prediction
294(2)
Correlation and regression
296(2)
The question of causation
298(3)
Evidence for causation
301(1)
Statistical Controversies: Gun Control and Crime
302(1)
Statistics in Summary
303(1)
EESEE
303(1)
Exercises
303(9)
Exploring the Web
312(1)
Notes and Data Sources
312(2)
The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics
314(35)
Index numbers
315(1)
Fixed market basket price indexes
316(1)
Using the CPI
317(4)
Understanding the CPI
321(1)
Statistical Controversies: Does the CPI Overstate Inflation?
322(1)
The place of government statistics
323(2)
The question of social statistics
325(1)
Statistics in Summary
326(1)
EESEE
326(1)
Exercises
327(5)
Exploring the Web
332(1)
Notes and Data Sources
333(1)
Review
334(15)
Summary
335(2)
Review Exercises
337(8)
Projects
345(1)
Notes and Data Sources
346(3)
Part III: Chance
349(74)
Thinking about Chance
351(18)
The idea of probability
352(2)
The ancient history of chance
354(1)
Myths about chance behavior
355(5)
Personal probabilities
360(1)
Probability and risk
361(1)
Statistics in Summary
362(1)
EESEE
363(1)
Exercises
363(4)
Exploring the Web
367(1)
Notes and Data Sources
367(2)
Probability Models
369(14)
Probability models
369(1)
Probability rules
370(3)
Probability models for sampling
373(3)
Statistics in Summary
376(1)
EESEE
377(1)
Exercises
377(5)
Notes and Data Sources
382(1)
Simulation
383(17)
Where do probabilities come from?
384(1)
Simulation basics
384(4)
Thinking about independence
388(1)
More elaborate simulations
389(3)
Statistics in Summary
392(1)
EESEE
393(1)
Exercises
393(6)
Exploring the Web
399(1)
Notes and Data Sources
399(1)
The House Edge: Expected Values
400(23)
Expected values
401(3)
The law of large numbers
404(1)
Thinking about expected values
405(1)
Statistical Controversies: The State of Legalized Gambling
406(1)
Finding expected values by simulation
406(1)
Statistics in Summary
407(1)
EESEE
407(1)
Exercises
408(5)
Exploring the Web
413(1)
Notes and Data Sources
413(1)
Review
414(9)
Summary
414(1)
Review Exercises
415(5)
Projects
420(1)
Notes and Data Sources
421(2)
Part IV: Inference
423(94)
What Is a Confidence Interval?
425(24)
Estimating
426(1)
Estimating with confidence
427(3)
Understanding confidence intervals
430(4)
More on confidence intervals for a population proportion
434(2)
The sampling distribution of a sample mean
436(2)
Confidence intervals for a population mean
438(2)
Statistics in Summary
440(1)
EESEE
440(1)
Exercises
440(7)
Notes and Data Sources
447(2)
What Is a Test of Significance?
449(22)
The reasoning of statistical tests
450(2)
Hypotheses and P-values
452(4)
Statistical significance
456(1)
Calculating P-values
457(1)
Tests for a population mean
458(4)
Statistics in Summary
462(1)
EESEE
463(1)
Exercises
463(6)
Exploring the Web
469(1)
Notes and Data Sources
469(2)
Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference
471(14)
Using inference wisely
472(2)
The woes of significance tests
474(3)
The advantages of confidence intervals
477(1)
Significance at the 5% level isn't magical
478(1)
Beware of searching for significance
478(1)
Statistical Controversies: Should Significance Tests Be Banned?
479(1)
Statistics in Summary
480(1)
EESEE
480(1)
Exercises
480(4)
Exploring the Web
484(1)
Notes and Data Sources
484(1)
Two-Way Tables and the Chi-Square Test
485(32)
Two-way tables
486(1)
Simpson's paradox
487(2)
Inference for a two-way table
489(3)
The chi-square test
492(3)
Using the chi-square test
495(3)
Statistics in Summary
498(1)
EESEE
498(1)
Exercises
498(5)
Notes and Data Sources
503(2)
Review
505(12)
Summary
506(2)
Review Exercises
508(6)
Projects
514(1)
Notes and Data Sources
515(2)
Solutions to ``Now It's Your Turn'' Exercises517(11)
Solutions to Selected Exercises528(17)
Resolving the Controversy545(5)
Table A Random Digits550(2)
Table B Percentiles of the Normal Distributions552(1)
Index of Tables553(2)
Subject Index555

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