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Understanding Basic Statistics, Brief
ISBN: 9780618632275 | 0618632271
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 12/14/2005
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A condensed, streamlined version of the popular, widely used "Understandable Statistics," 8/e, this text offers instructors an effective solution to teaching the essentials of statistics within a shorter time frame.Designed to help students overcome their apprehension about statistics, "Understanding Basic Statistics," 4/e is a thorough, accessible text that demonstrates the applicability of statistics in the real world. Student-friendly highlights of the Fourth Edition include solutions and key steps to odd-numbered problems, highlighted defin... MORE
| Getting Started Focus Problem: Where Have all the Fireflies Gone? | |
| What Is Statistics? | |
| Random Samples | |
| Introduction to Experimental Design | |
| Organizing Data Focus Problem: Say it with Pictures | |
| Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics | |
| Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs | |
| Stem-and-Leaf Displays | |
| Averages ... MORE | |
| Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean | |
| Measures of Variation | |
| Percentiles and Box-and Whisker Plots Cumulative Review Problems: Ch. 1–3 | |
| Correlation and Regression Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate | |
| Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation | |
| Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination | |
| Elementary Probability Theory Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie? | |
| What is Probability? | |
| Some Probability Rules-Compound Events | |
| Trees and Counting Techniques | |
| The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert of Extrovert? | |
| Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions | |
| Binomial Probabilities | |
| Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution Cumulative Review Problems: Ch. 4–6 | |
| Normal Curves and Sampling Distributions Focus Problem: Impulse Buying | |
| Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions | |
| Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution | |
| Areas Under Any Normal Curve | |
| Sampling Distributions | |
| The Central Limit Theorem | |
| Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
| Estimation Focus Problem: Trick or Treat!!! | |
| Estimating mu; When sigma; is Known | |
| Estimating mu; When sigma; is Unknown | |
| Estimatingpin the Binomial Distribution | |
| Hypothesis Testing Focus Problem: Benford's Law: The Importance of Being No.1 | |
| Introduction to Statistical Tests | |
| Testing the Mean of mu; | |
| Testing a Proportionp | |
| Inferences About Differences Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks | |
| Test Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples) | |
| Inferences About Differences of Two Means mu;1-mu;2 | |
| Inferences About the Difference of Two Proportionsp1-p2 | |
| Additional Topics Using Inference Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeology | |
| Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution | |
| Chi-Square: Tests of Independence | |
| Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit | |
| Testing a Single Variance or Standard Deviation | |
| Inferences Relating to Linear Regression | |
| Inferences for Correlation and Regression Cumulative Review Problems Problems: Ch.10–11 | |
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