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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.

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9780201771282
ISBN 10:
0201771284
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Summary

The goals of the book are to help students develop an understanding of statistics and develop their statistical reasoning skills. This text approaches statistics by presenting an overall picture, then providing an explanation of the topics in context. Students develop an understanding of statistics that is reinforced in the exercises, Web projects, and Focus On features.

Preface

To the Student: How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course

xvi

Applications Index

xvii

Speaking of Statistics

(50)

What Is/Are Statistics?

(9)

Sampling

(10)

Types of Statistical Study

(12)

Should You Believe a Statistical Study?

(18)

Focus on Sociology: Does Daycare Breed Bullies?

(3)

Focus on Public Health: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy?

(2)

Measurement in Statistics

(36)

Data Types and Levels of Measurement

(5)

Dealing with Errors

(9)

Uses of Percentages in Statistics

(7)

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

(60)

Frequency Tables

(10)

Picturing Distributions of Data

(15)

Graphics in the Media

113

(15)

A Few Cautions About Graphics

128

(19)

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

140

(3)

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

143

(4)

Describing Data

147

(40)

What Is Average?

148

(11)

Shapes of Distributions

159

(7)

Measures of Variation

166

(21)

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

181

(3)

Focus on Economics: Are the Rich Getting Richer?

184

(3)

A Normal World

187

(38)

What Is Normal?

188

(10)

Properties of the Normal Distribution

198

(11)

The Central Limit Theorem

209

(16)

Focus on Education: What Do SAT Scores Mean?

218

(3)

Focus on Psychology: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents?

221

(4)

Probability in Statistics

225

(48)

The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance

226

(4)

Basics of Probability

230

(14)

Probabilities with Large Numbers

244

(10)

Combining Probabilities

254

(19)

Focus on Social Science: Are Lotteries Fair?

266

(3)

Focus on Law: Is DNA Fingerprinting Reliable?

269

(4)

Correlation and Causality

273

(52)

Seeking Correlation

274

(17)

Interpreting Correlations

291

(9)

Best-Fit Lines and Prediction

300

(9)

The Search for Causality

309

(16)

Focus on Education: What Helps Children Read?

319

(3)

Focus on Public Health: What Do Disease Clusters Mean?

322

(3)

From Samples to Populations

325

(34)

Sampling Distributions

326

(12)

Estimating Population Means

338

(9)

Estimating Population Proportions

347

(12)

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

355

(2)

Focus on Literature: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?

357

(2)

Hypothesis Testing

359

(48)

Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing

360

(7)

Setting Up Hypothesis Tests

367

(6)

Hypothesis Tests for Population Means

373

(11)

Hypothesis Testing: Further Considerations

384

(8)

Hypothesis Testing: Population Proportions

392

(15)

Focus on History: Where Did Statistics Begin?

401

(3)

Focus on Agriculture: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

404

(3)

Further Applications of Statistics

407

(46)

Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy

408

(8)

Statistical Paradoxes

416

(10)

Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables

426

(27)

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

446

(4)

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

450

(3)

Epilogue

453

(1)

Appendix A: State Data

454

(4)

Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers

458

(1)

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