Guided Notebook for Interactive Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data

Table des matières

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 Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend?
   • Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash

II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

1. 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 Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs?
   • Case Study: The Day the Sky Roared
2. 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
   • 3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots
   • Chapter Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?
   • Case Study: Who Was A Mourner?
3. 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 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

1. 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 Simulation
   • 5.7 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
   • Chapter Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: What Are the Effects of Drinking and Driving?
   • Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag
2. Discrete Probability Distributions
   • 6.1 Discrete Random Variables
   • 6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution
   • 6.3 The Poisson Probability Distribution
   • Chapter Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?
   • Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew
3. 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 Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: What Stock Do I Pick?
   • Case Study: A Tale of Blood, Chemistry, and Health

IV: INFERENCE FROM SAMPLES TO POPULATION

1. Sampling Distributions
   • 8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean
   • 8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion
   • Chapter Review
   • Chapter Test
   • Making an Informed Decision: How Would You Break Down Your Day?
   • Case Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median
2. Estimating the Value of a Parameter Using Confidence Intervals
   • 9.1 Estimating a Population Proportion
   • 9.2 Estimating a Population Mean

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michael Sullivan, George Woodbury
• Edition: Pearson
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 12.04.2018
• EAN: 9780134722405
• ISBN: 978-0-13-472240-5
• Pages: 360
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 281 mm x 25 mm
• Poids: 608 g
• Catégorie: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Mathématiques > Théorie des probabilités, stochastique, statistiques