Description
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Organization and Coverage
- Supplemental Materials
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Statistics
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics
- 1.3 Inferential Statistics and Probability Models
- 1.4 Populations and Samples
- 1.5 A Brief History of Statistics
- Problems
- Chapter 2. Descriptive Statistics
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Describing Data Sets
- 2.3 Summarizing Data Sets
- 2.4 Chebyshev’s Inequality
- 2.5 Normal Data Sets
- 2.6 Paired Data Sets and the Sample Correlation Coefficient
- Problems
- Chapter 3. Elements of Probability
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Sample Space and Events
- 3.3 Venn Diagrams and the Algebra of Events
- 3.4 Axioms of Probability
- 3.5 Sample Spaces Having Equally Likely Outcomes
- 3.6 Conditional Probability
- 3.7 Bayes’ Formula
- 3.8 Independent Events
- Problems
- Chapter 4. Random Variables and Expectation
- 4.1 Random Variables
- 4.2 Types of Random Variables
- 4.3 Jointly Distributed Random Variables
- 4.4 Expectation
- 4.5 Properties of the Expected Value
- 4.6 Variance
- 4.7 Covariance and Variance of Sums of Random Variables
- 4.8 Moment Generating Functions
- 4.9 Chebyshev’s Inequality and the Weak Law of Large Numbers
- Problems
- Chapter 5. Special Random Variables
- 5.1 The Bernoulli and Binomial Random Variables
- 5.2 The Poisson Random Variable
- 5.3 The Hypergeometric Random Variable
- 5.4 The Uniform Random Variable
- 5.5 Normal Random Variables
- 5.6 Exponential Random Variables
- 5.7 The Gamma Distribution
- 5.8 Distributions Arising from the Normal
- 5.9 The Logistics Distribution
- Problems
- Chapter 6. Distributions of Sampling Statistics
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The Sample Mean
- 6.3 The Central Limit Theorem
- 6.4 The Sample Variance
- 6.5 Sampling Distributions from a Normal Population
- 6.6 Sampling from a Finite Population
- Problems
- Chapter 7. Parameter Estimation
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Maximum Likelihood Estimators
- 7.3 Interval Estimates
- 7.4 Estimating the Difference in Means of Two Normal Populations
- 7.5 Approximate Confidence Interval for the Mean of a Bernoulli Random Variable
- 7.6 Confidence Interval of the Mean of the Exponential Distribution
- 7.7 Evaluating a Point Estimator
- 7.8 The Bayes Estimator
- Problems
- Chapter 8. Hypothesis Testing
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Significance Levels
- 8.3 Tests Concerning the Mean of a Normal Population
- 8.4 Testing The Equality of Means of Two Normal Populations
- 8.5 Hypothesis Tests Concerning the Variance of a Normal Population
- 8.6 Hypothesis Tests in Bernoulli Populations
- 8.7 Tests Concerning the Mean of a Poisson Distribution
- Problems
- Chapter 9. Regression
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Least Squares Estimators of the Regression Parameters
- 9.3 Distribution of the Estimators
- 9.4 Statistical Inferences about the Regression Parameters
- 9.5 The Coefficient of Determination and the Sample Correlation Coefficient
- 9.6 Analysis of Residuals: Assessing the Model
- 9.7 Transforming to Linearity
- 9.8 Weighted Least Squares
- 9.9 Polynomial Regression
- 9.10 Multiple Linear Regression
- 9.11 Logistic Regression Models for Binary Output Data
- Problems
- Chapter 10. Analysis of Variance
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 An Overview
- 10.3 One-Way Analysis of Variance
- 10.4 Two-Factor Analysis of Variance: Introduction and Parameter Estimation
- 10.5 Two-Factor Analysis of Variance: Testing Hypotheses
- 10.6 Two-Way Analysis of Variance with Interaction
- Problems
- Chapter 11. Goodness of Fit Tests and Categorical Data Analysis
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Goodness of Fit Tests When All Parameters are Specified
- 11.3 Goodness of Fit Tests When Some Parameters are Unspecified
- 11.4 Tests of Independence in Contingency Tables
- 11.5 Tests of Independence in Contingency Tables Having Fixed Marginal Totals
- 11.6 The Kolmogorov–Smirnov Goodness of Fit Test for Continuous Data
- Problems
- Chapter 12. Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The Sign Test
- 12.3 The Signed Rank Test
- 12.4 The Two-Sample Problem
- 12.5 The Runs Test for Randomness
- Problems
- Chapter 13. Quality Control
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Control Charts for Average Values: The X¯ Control Chart
- 13.3 S-Control Charts
- 13.4 Control Charts for the Fraction Defective
- 13.5 Control Charts for Number of Defects
- 13.6 Other Control Charts for Detecting Changes in the Population Mean
- Problems
- Chapter 14. Life Testing
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Hazard Rate Functions
- 14.3 The Exponential Distribution In Life Testing
- 14.4 A Two-Sample Problem
- 14.5 The Weibull Distribution in Life Testing
- Problems
- Chapter 15. Simulation, Bootstrap Statistical Methods, and Permutation Tests
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Random Numbers
- 15.3 The Bootstrap Method
- 15.4 Permutation Tests
- 15.4.1 Normal Approximations in Permutation Tests
- 15.5 Generating Discrete Random Variables
- 15.6 Generating Continuous Random Variables
- 15.7 Determining the Number of Simulation Runs in a Monte Carlo Study
- Problems
- Appendix of Tables
- Index




