Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Global Edition

Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data helps you see the bigger picture and make informed choices for real-life situations such as buying a car, investing money, and choosing a place to live. It offers a practical emphasis that shows how statistics is connected not only to concepts, but to our world at large.
The 7th Edition adds a new set of Threaded Health and Nutrition Problems, drawing on National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This revision also adds a wealth of new and updated exercises, examples, and much more.

List of contents

Applications Index
I. 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 College Should I Attend?
  • Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash

II. 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 (online)
  • Chapter 4 Review
  • Chapter Test
  • Making an Informed Decision: Relationships among Variables on a World Scale
  • Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence

III. 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 Simulating Probability Experiments
  • 5.7 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
  • 5.8 Bayes's Rule (online)
  • 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
• 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 (online)
  • 6.5 Combining Random Variables (online)
  • 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 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

IV. 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?
  • Case Study: Samp

Product details

• Authors: Michael Sullivan
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2025
• EAN: 9781292470696
• ISBN: 978-1-292-47069-6
• No. of pages: 1076
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 40 mm x 280 mm
• Weight: 2276 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Basic principles