Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World

, by Larson, Ron; Farber, Elizabeth

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ISBN: 9780131924956 | 0131924958
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Copyright: 1/31/2005

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Supplemental Materials

Preface

Supplements

xiii

Acknowledgments

xiv

Features

How to Study Statistics

xxi

Index of Applications

xxiii

Introduction to Statistics

Where You've Been

(1)

Where You're Going

(1)

An Overview of Statistics

(7)

Data Classification

(7)

Case Study: Rating Television Shows in the United States

(1)

Experimental Design

(16)

Uses and Abuses

(1)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Review Exercises

(2)

Chapter Quiz

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

(1)

History of Statistics---Timeline

(1)

Technology: Using Technology in Statistics

(2)

Descriptive Statistics

(84)

Where You've Been

(1)

Where You're Going

(1)

Frequency Distributions and Their Graphs

(15)

More Graphs and Displays

(11)

Measures of Central Tendency

(14)

Measures of Variation

(19)

Case Study: Sunglass Sales in the United States

(1)

Measures of Position

(23)

Uses and Abuses

105

(1)

Chapter Summary

106

(1)

Review Exercises

107

(4)

Chapter Quiz

111

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

112

(1)

Technology: Monthly Milk Production

113

(1)

Using Technology to Determine Descriptive Statistics

114

(2)

Probability

116

(54)

Where You've Been

117

(1)

Where You're Going

117

(1)

Basic Concepts of Probability

118

(12)

Conditional Probability and the Multiplication Rule

130

(10)

The Addition Rule

140

(10)

Case Study: Probability and Parking Lot Strategies

149

(1)

Counting Principles

150

(20)

Uses and Abuses

161

(1)

Chapter Summary

162

(1)

Review Exercises

163

(4)

Chapter Quiz

167

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

168

(1)

Technology: Simulation: Composing Mozart Variations with Dice

169

(1)

Discrete Probability Distributions

170

(44)

Where You've Been

171

(1)

Where You're Going

171

(1)

Probability Distributions

172

(12)

Binomial Distributions

184

(14)

Case Study: Binomial Distribution of Airplane Accidents

197

(1)

More Discrete Probability Distributions

198

(16)

Uses and Abuses

205

(1)

Chapter Summary

206

(1)

Review Exercises

207

(4)

Chapter Quiz

211

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

212

(1)

Technology: Using Poisson Distributions as Queuing Models

213

(1)

Normal Probability Distributions

214

(64)

Where You've Been

215

(1)

Where You're Going

215

(1)

Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution

216

(13)

Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities

229

(8)

Normal Distributions: Finding Values

237

(9)

Case Study: Birth Weights in America

245

(1)

Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

246

(13)

Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions

259

(19)

Uses and Abuses

269

(1)

Chapter Summary

270

(1)

Review Exercises

271

(4)

Chapter Quiz

275

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

276

(1)

Technology: Age Distribution in the United States

277

(1)

Confidence Intervals

278

(52)

Where You've Been

279

(1)

Where You're Going

279

(1)

Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Large Samples)

280

(15)

Case Study: Shoulder Heights of Appalachian Black Bears

294

(1)

Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Small Samples)

295

(8)

Confidence Intervals for Population Proportions

303

(9)

Confidence Intervals for Variance and Standard Deviation

312

(18)

Uses and Abuses

319

(1)

Chapter Summary

320

(1)

Review Exercises

321

(4)

Chapter Quiz

325

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

326

(1)

Technology: Most Admired Polls

327

(1)

Using Technology to Construct Confidence Intervals

328

(2)

Hypothesis Testing with One Sample

330

(72)

Where You've Been

331

(1)

Where You're Going

331

(1)

Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

332

(15)

Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Large Samples)

347

(17)

Case Study: Human Body Temperature: What's Normal?

363

(1)

Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Small Samples)

364

(10)

Hypothesis Testing for Proportions

374

(6)

Hypothesis Testing for Variance and Standard Deviation

380

(22)

Uses and Abuses

389

(1)

A Summary of Hypothesis Testing

390

(2)

Chapter Summary

392

(1)

Review Exercises

393

(4)

Chapter Quiz

397

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

398

(1)

Technology: The Case of the Vanishing Women

399

(1)

Using Technology to Perform Hypothesis Tests

400

(2)

Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples

402

(54)

Where You've Been

403

(1)

Where You're Going

403

(1)

Testing the Difference Between Means (Large Independent Samples)

404

(12)

Case Study: DASH Diet and Blood Pressure

415

(1)

Testing the Difference Between Means (Small Independent Samples)

416

(9)

Testing the Difference Between Means (Dependent Samples)

425

(12)

Testing the Difference Between Proportions

437

(19)

Uses and Abuses

445

(1)

Chapter Summary

446

(1)

Review Exercises

447

(4)

Chapter Quiz

451

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

452

(1)

Technology: Tails Over Heads

453

(1)

Using Technology to Perform Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests

454

(2)

Correlation and Regression

456

(52)

Where You've Been

457

(1)

Where You're Going

457

(1)

Correlation

458

(16)

Linear Regression

474

(10)

Case Study: Correlation of Body Measurements

483

(1)

Measures of Regression and Prediction Intervals

484

(10)

Multiple Regression

494

(14)

Uses and Abuses

499

(1)

Chapter Summary

500

(1)

Review Exercises

501

(4)

Chapter Quiz

505

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

506

(1)

Technology: Nutrients in Breakfast Cereals

507

(1)

Chi-Square Tests and the F-Distribution

508

(56)

Where You've Been

509

(1)

Where You're Going

509

(1)

Goodness of Fit

510

(11)

Independence

521

(12)

Case Study: Traffic Safety Facts

532

(1)

Comparing Two Variances

533

(9)

Analysis of Variance

542

(22)

Uses and Abuses

555

(1)

Chapter Summary

556

(1)

Review Exercises

557

(4)

Chapter Quiz

561

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

562

(1)

Technology: Teacher Salaries

563

(1)

Nonparametric Tests

564

Where You've Been

565

(1)

Where You're Going

565

(1)

The Sign Test

566

(11)

The Wilcoxon Tests

577

(10)

Case Study: Earnings by College Degree

586

(1)

The Kruskal-Wallis Test

587

(6)

Rank Correlation

593

(6)

The Runs Test

599

Uses and Abuses

607

(1)

Chapter Summary

608

(1)

Review Exercises

609

(4)

Chapter Quiz

613

(1)

Real Statistics--Real Decisions---Putting It All Together

614

(1)

Technology: U.S. Income and Economic Research

615

Appendices

Appendix A Alternative Presentation of the Standard Normal Distribution

(6)

Standard Normal Distribution Table (0-to-z)

(1)

Alternative Presentation of the Standard Normal Distribution

(5)

Appendix B Tables

(23)

Table 1 Random Numbers

(1)

Table 2 Binomial Distribution

(3)

Table 3 Poisson Distribution

(5)

Table 4 Standard Normal Distribution

(2)

Table 5 t-Distribution

(1)

Table 6 Chi-Square Distribution

(1)

Table 7 F-Distribution

(5)

Table 8 Critical Values for the Sign Test

(1)

Table 9 Critical Values for the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test

(1)

Table 10 Critical Values for the Spearman Rank Correlation

(1)

Table 11 Critical Values for the Pearson Correlation Coefficient

(1)

Table 12 Critical Values for the Number of Runs

(1)

Answers to the Try It Yourself Exercises

(17)

Answers to the Odd-Numbered Exercises

Index

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