Understandable statistics: concepts and methods

✍ Scribed by Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 872
• Edition: 11
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

UNDERSTANDABLE STATISTICS: CONCEPTS AND METHODS, Eleventh Edition, is a thorough yet accessible program designed to help readers overcome their apprehensions about statistics. The authors provide clear guidance and informal advice while showing the links between statistics and the world. To reinforce this approach--and make the material interesting as well as easier to understand--the book integrates real-life data from a variety of sources, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, and the Internet. Readers also have opportunities to develop their critical-thinking and statistical literacy skills through special features and exercises throughout the text. The use of graphing calculators, Excel, MINITAB, and SPSS is covered for those who wish to learn about these helpful tools.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Critical Thinking
Statistical Literacy
Direction and Purpose
Real-World Skills
Making the Jump
Preface
Additional Resources - Get More from Your Textbook!
Table of Prerequisite Material
Ch 1: Getting Started
Focus Problem: Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?
Section 1.1: What is Statistics?
Section 1.2: Random Samples
Section 1.3: Introduction to Experimental Design
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 2: Organizing Data
Focus Problem: Say It with Pictures
Section 2.1: Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics
Section 2.2: Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs
Section 2.3: Stem-and-Leaf Displays
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 3: Averages and Variation
Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage
Section 3.1: Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean
Section 3.2: Measures of Variation
Section 3.3: Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapter 1-3
Ch 4: Elementary Probability Theory
Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie?
Section 4.1: What is Probability?
Section 4.2: Some Probability Rules-Compound Events
Section 4.3: Trees and Counting Techniques
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 5: The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics
Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert or Extrovert?
Section 5.1: Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions
Section 5.2: Binomial Probabilities
Section 5.3: Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution
Section 5.4: The Geometric and Poisson Probability Distributions
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 6: Normal Curves and Sampling Distributions
Focus Problem: Impulse Buying
Section 6.1: Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions
Section 6.2: Standard Units and Areas under the Standard Normal Distribution
Section 6.3: Areas under any Normal Curve
Section 6.4: Sampling Distributions
Section 6.5: The Central Limit Theorem
Section 6.6: Normal Approximation to Binomial Distribution and to p Distribution
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapter 4-6
Ch 7: Estimation
Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks
Section 7.1: Estimating u When o is Known
Section 7.2: Estimating u When o is Unknown
Section 7.3: Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution
Section 7.4: Estimating u1 - u2 and p1 - p2
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 8: Hypothesis Testing
Focus Problem: Benford's Law: The Importance of Being Number 1
Section 8.1: Introduction to Statistical Tests
Section 8.2: Testing the Mean u
Section 8.3: Testing a Proportion p
Section 8.4: Tests Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples)
Section 8.5: Testing u1 - u2 and p1 - p2 (Independent Samples)
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 9: Correlation and Regression
Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate
Section 9.1: Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation
Section 9.2: Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination
Section 9.3: Inferences for Correlation and Regression
Section 9.4: Multiple Regression
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapter 7-9
Ch 10: Chi-Square and F Distributions
Focus Problem: Archaeology in Bandelier National Monument
Part I: Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution
Section 10.1: Chi-Square: Tests of Independence and of Homogeneity
Section 10.2: Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit
Section 10.3: Testing and Estimating a Single Variance or Standard Deviation
Part II: Inferences Using the F Distribution
Section 10.4: Testing Two Variances
Section 10.5: One-Way ANOVA: Comparing Several Sample Means
Section 10.6: Introduction to Two-Way ANOVA
Chapter Review
Using Technology
Ch 11: Nonparametric Statistics
Focus Problem: How Cold? Compared to What?
Section 11.1: The Sign Test for Matched Pairs
Section 11.2: The Rank-Sum Test
Section 11.3: Spearman Rank Correlation
Section 11.4: Runs Test for Randomness
Chapter Review
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapter 10-11
Appendix I: Additional Topics
Part I: Bayes's Theorem
Part II: The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution
Appendix II: Tables
Answers and Key Steps to Odd-Numbered Problems
Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Problems
Index