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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life

by: Bennett, Jeffrey O.; Briggs, William L.; Triola, Mario F.

Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life

by: Bennett, Jeffrey O.; Briggs, William L.; Triola, Mario F.

ISBN 13:
9780201614886
ISBN 10:
020161488X
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/2000
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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Summary

This book is intended for use in the statistical literacy course or an introductory statistics course that emphasizes concepts over computation. The goal is to give students a conceptual understanding of statistics and develop their statistical reasoning skills. This text approaches statistics by presenting an overall picture and then providing explanation of the topics in context. Students develop an understanding of statistics that is reinforced in the exercises and web projects, and by doing some computation.

Preface

To the Student: How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course

xvi

Speaking of Statistics

(56)

What Is/Are Statistics?

(11)

Sampling

(12)

Types of Statistical Study

(13)

Should You Believe a Statistical Study?

(19)

Focus on Medicine: How Strong Is the Placebo Effect?

(3)

Focus on Public Health: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy?

(2)

Measurement in Statistics

(40)

Data Types and Levels of Measurement

(6)

Dealing with Errors

(10)

Uses and Abuses of Percentages in Statistics

(9)

Index Numbers

(14)

Focus on Politics: Who Benefits from a Tax Cut?

(2)

Focus on Economics: Does the Consumer Price Index Really Measure Inflation?

(4)

Visual Displays of Data

(64)

Frequency Tables

(10)

Picturing Distributions of Data

108

(18)

Graphics in the Media

126

(17)

A Few Cautions About Graphics

143

(18)

Focus on History: Can War Be Described with a Graph?

156

(2)

Focus on Environment: How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere?

158

(3)

Describing Data

161

(50)

What Is Average?

162

(14)

Shapes of Distributions

176

(9)

Measures of Variation

185

(26)

Focus on the Stock Market: What's Average About the Dow?

203

(4)

Focus on Social Science: Are the Rich Getting Richer?

207

(4)

A Normal World

211

(44)

What Is Normal?

212

(11)

Properties of the Normal Distribution

223

(15)

The Central Limit Theorem

238

(17)

Focus on Education: What Do SAT Scores Mean?

248

(3)

Focus on Psychology: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents?

251

(4)

Probability in Statistics

255

(72)

Statistical Significance

256

(5)

Basics of Probability

261

(20)

In the Long Run, What Do You Expect?

281

(11)

Assessing Risk

292

(10)

Rules for Combining Probabilities

302

(25)

Focus on Social Science: Are Lotteries Fair?

315

(4)

Focus on Law: Is DNA Fingerprinting Reliable?

319

(4)

Focus on Psychology: What Does Your Intuition Say About Risks?

323

(4)

Correlation and Causality

327

(56)

Seeking Correlation

328

(18)

Interpreting Correlations

346

(10)

Best-Fit Lines and Prediction

356

(10)

The Search for Causality

366

(17)

Focus on Education: What Helps Children Read?

377

(3)

Focus on Public Health: What Do Disease Clusters Mean?

380

(3)

From Samples to Populations

383

(38)

Sampling Distributions

384

(13)

Estimating Population Means

397

(10)

Estimating Population Proportions

407

(14)

Focus on Media: Did NBC Lose $66 Million to a Nielsen Sampling Error?

416

(2)

Focus on Literature: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?

418

(3)

Hypothesis Testing

421

(56)

Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing

422

(9)

Setting Up Hypothesis Tests

431

(6)

Hypothesis Tests for Population Means

437

(13)

Hypothesis Testing: Further Considerations

450

(11)

Hypothesis Testing: Population Proportions

461

(16)

Focus on History: Where Did Statistics Begin?

470

(3)

Focus on Agriculture: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

473

(4)

Relationships in Tables

477

(50)

Understanding Two-Way Tables

478

(13)

Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables

491

(13)

Risk, Paradox, and Probability

504

(23)

Focus on Criminology: Can You Tell a Fraud When You See One?

519

(3)

Focus on Education: What Can a Fourth Grader Do with Statistics?

522

(5)

Appendix: State Data

527

Answers

A-1

(1)

Credits

C-1

(1)

Index

I-1

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