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• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface to the Instructor
• Resources for Success
• Applications Index
• Part 1: Getting the Information You Need
• Chapter 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 College Should I Attend?
• Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash
• Part 2: Descriptive Statistics
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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”?
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 4 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Relationships among Variables on a World Scale
• Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence
• 4.5 Nonlinear Regression: Transformations (online)
• Part 3: Probability and Probability Distributions
• Chapter 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?
• Chapter 5 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: The Effects of Drinking and Driving
• Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag
• 5.7 Bayes’s Rule (online)
• Chapter 6: Discrete Probability Distributions
• 6.1 Discrete Random Variables
• 6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution
• 6.3 The Poisson Probability Distribution
• Chapter 6 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?
• Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew
• 6.4 The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution (online)
• Chapter 7: The Normal Probability Distribution
• 7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution
• 7.2 Applications of the Normal Distribution
• 7.3 Assessing Normality
• 7.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution
• Chapter 7 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking
• Case Study: A Tale of Blood Chemistry
• Part 4: Inference: From Samples to Population
• Chapter 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 … ?
• Case Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median
• Chapter 9: Estimating the Value of a Parameter
• 9.1 Estimating a Population Proportion
• 9.2 Estimating a Population Mean
• 9.3 Estimating a Population Standard Deviation
• 9.4 Putting It Together: Which Procedure Do I Use?
• 9.5 Estimating with Bootstrapping
• Chapter 9 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: How Much Should I Spend for this House?
• Case Study: Fire-Safe Cigarettes
• Chapter 10: Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter
• 10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing
• 10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion
• 10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean
• 10.4 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Standard Deviation
• 10.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
• 10.6 The Probability of a Type II Error and the Power of the Test
• Chapter 10 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Selecting a Mutual Fund
• Case Study: How Old Is Stonehenge?
• Chapter 11: Inferences on Two Samples
• 11.1 Inference about Two Population Proportions
• 11.2 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples
• 11.3 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples
• 11.4 Inference about Two Population Standard Deviations
• 11.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
• Chapter 11 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Which Car Should I Buy?
• Case Study: Control in the Design of an Experiment
• Chapter 12: Inference on Categorical Data
• 12.1 Goodness-of-Fit Test
• 12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions
• 12.3 Inference about Two Population Proportions: Dependent Samples
• Chapter 12 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College
• Case Study: Feeling Lucky? Well, Are You?
• Chapter 13: Comparing Three or More Means
• 13.1 Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance)
• 13.2 Post Hoc Tests on One-Way Analysis of Variance
• 13.3 The Randomized Complete Block Design
• 13.4 Two-Way Analysis of Variance
• Chapter 13 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Invest?
• Case Study: Hat Size and Intelligence
• Chapter 14: Inference on the Least-Squares Regression Model and Multiple Regression
• 14.1 Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model
• 14.2 Confidence and Prediction Intervals
• 14.3 Introduction to Multiple Regression
• 14.4 Interaction and Dummy Variables
• 14.5 Polynomial Regression
• 14.6 Building a Regression Model
• Chapter 14 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Buying a Home
• Case Study: Housing Boom
• Chapter 15: Nonparametric Statistics
• 15.1 An Overview of Nonparametric Statistics
• 15.2 Runs Test for Randomness
• 15.3 Inference about Measures of Central Tendency
• 15.4 Inference about the Difference between Two Medians: Dependent Samples
• 15.5 Inference about the Difference between Two Medians: Independent Samples
• 15.6 Spearman’s Rank-Correlation Test
• 15.7 Kruskal–Wallis Test
• Chapter 15 Review
• Chapter Test
• Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Live?
• Case Study: Evaluating Alabama’s 1891 House Bill 504
• Photo Credits
• Appendix A: Tables
• Appendix B: Lines
• Answers
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