Understandable Statistics
by Brase, Charles Henry; Brase, Corrinne PellilloEdition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-01-04
Publisher(s): Brooks Cole
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Summary
Understandable Statistics is a thorough, yet approachable statistics text. Designed to help students overcome their apprehension about statistics, the text provides guidance and informal advice showing students the links between statistics and their everyday lives. To reinforce this approach, the book integrates real-life data selected from a variety of sources including journals, periodicals, newspapers and the Internet. The use of graphing calculators, Excel, Minitab and SPSS is covered, but not required. A set of technology resources accompanying the Eighth Edition, designed to provide reinforcement for struggling students, includes a market-leading video and DVD series, interactive lessons, and simulations.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs | |
| Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics | |
| Stem-and-Leaf Displays | |
| Averages and Variation Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage | |
| Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean | |
| Measures of Variation | |
| Mean and Standard Deviation of Grouped Data | |
| Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 1-3 | |
| 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 or Extrovert? | |
| Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions | |
| Binomial Probabilities | |
| Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution | |
| The Geometric and Poissson Probability Distributions | |
| Normal Distributions Focus Problem: Large Auditorium Shows: How Many Will Attend? | |
| Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions | |
| Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution | |
| Areas Under Any Normal Curve | |
| Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 4-6 | |
| Introduction to Sampling Distributions Focus Problem: Impulse Buying | |
| Sampling Distributions | |
| The Central Limit Theorem | |
| Sampling Distribution for Proportions | |
| Estimation Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks | |
| Estimating m When o Is Known | |
| Estimating m When o Is Unknown | |
| Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution | |
| Choosing the Sample Size | |
| Estimating m1-m2 and p1-p2 | |
| Hypothesis Testing Focus Problem: Benford\'s Law: The Importance of Being Number 1 | |
| Introduction to Statistical Tests | |
| Testing the Mean m | |
| Testing a Proportion p | |
| Tests Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples) | |
| Testing m1-m2 and p1-p2 Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 7-9 | |
| Correlation and Regression Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate | |
| Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation | |
| Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination | |
| Inferences for Correlation and Regression | |
| Multiple Regression | |
| Chi Square and F Distributions Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeology Part I. Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution | |
| Chi-Square: Tests of Independence | |
| Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit | |
| Testing and Estimating a Single Variance or Standard Deviation Part II. Inferences Using the F Distribution | |
| Testing Two Variances | |
| One-Way ANOVA: Comparing Several Sample Means | |
| Introduction to Two-Way ANOVA | |
| Nonparametric Statistics Focus Problem: How Cold? Compared to What? | |
| The Sign Test for Matched Pairs | |
| The Rank-Sum Test | |
| Spearman Rank Correlation | |
| Runs Test for Randomness | |
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