Statistics: Concepts and Controversies

PART I: Producing Data

1. Where Does Data Come From?.-

2. Samples, Good and Bad.-

3. What Do Samples Tell Us?.-

4. Sample Surveys in the Real World.-

5. Experiments, Good and Bad.-

6. Experiments in the Real World.-

7. Data Ethics.-

8. Measuring.-

9. Do the Numbers Make Sense?.-

PART II: Organizing Data.-

10. Graphs, Good and Bad.-

12. Describing Distributions with Numbers.-

13. Normal Distributions.-

14. Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation.-

15. Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation.-

18. Probability Models.-

20. The House Edge: Expected Values.-

PART IV: Inference.-

21. What Is a Confidence Interval?.-

22. What Is a Test of Significance?.-

23. Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference.-

24. Two-Way Tables and the Chi-Square Test