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Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, 3rd Edition

By Michael Sullivan

ISBN-10: 0-321-56802-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-56802-1What's this?

Published by Pearson

Pub. Date: Oct 14, 2008

Format: Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM

Table of Contents

Preface to the Instructor

Supplements

Technology Resources

An Introduction to the Applets

Applications Index

 

PART 1. GETTING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED

 

1. Data Collection

1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

1.2 Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments

1.3 Simple Random Sampling

1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods

1.5 Bias in Sampling

1.6 The Design of Experiments

            Chapter 1 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision:What Movie Should I Go To?

            Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash

 

PART 2. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

 

2. Organizing and Summarizing Data

2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data

2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data:The Popular Displays

2.3 Additional Displays of Quantitative Data

2.4 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data

            Chapter 2 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision:Tables or Graphs?

            Case Study: The Day the Sky Roared

 

3. Numerically Summarizing Data

3.1 Measures of Central Tendency

3.2 Measures of Dispersion

3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data

3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers

3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots

            Chapter 3 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?

            Case Study:Who Was A Mourner?

 

4. Describing the Relation between Two Variables

4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation

4.2 Least-Squares Regression

4.3 Diagnostics on the Least-Squares Regression Line

4.4 Contingency Tables and Association

4.5 Nonlinear Regression:Transformations (on CD)

            Chapter 4 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?

            Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence

 

PART 3. PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

 

5. Probability

5.1 Probability Rules

5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements

5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule

5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule

5.5 Counting Techniques

5.6 Putting It Together:Which Method Do I Use?

5.7 Bayes’s Rule (on CD)

            Chapter 5 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision: Sports Probabilities

            Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag

 

6. Discrete Probability Distributions

6.1 Discrete Random Variables

6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution

6.3 The Poisson Probability Distribution

6.4 The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution (on CD)

            Chapter 6 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?

            Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew

 

7. The Normal Probability Distribution

7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution

7.2 The Standard Normal Distribution

7.3 Applications of the Normal Distribution

7.4 Assessing Normality

7.5 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution

            Chapter 7 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision: Join the Club

            Case Study: A Tale of Blood Chemistry and Health

 

PART 4. INFERENCE: FROM SAMPLES TO POPULATION

 

8. Sampling Distributions

8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean

8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion

            Chapter 8 Review

            Chapter Test

            Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day...?

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