Elementary Statistics

1. Introduction to Statistics

1-1 Review and Preview

1-2 Statistical Thinking

1-3 Types of Data

1-4 Critical Thinking

1-5 Design of Experiments



2. Summarizing and Graphing Data

2-1 Review and Preview

2-2 Frequency Distributions

2-3 Histograms

2-4 Statistical Graphics

2-5 Critical Thinking: Bad Graphs



3. Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data

3-1 Review and Preview

3-2 Measures of Center

3-3 Measures of Variation

3-4 Measures of Relative Standing and Boxplots



4. Probability

4-1 Review and Preview

4-2 Fundamentals

4-3 Addition Rule

4-4 Multiplication Rule: Basics

4-5 Multiplication Rule: Complements and Conditional Probability

4-6 Probabilities Through Simulations

4-7 Counting

4-8 Bayes' Theorem (on CD-ROM)



5. Discrete Probability Distributions

5-1 Review and Preview

5-2 Random Variables

5-3 Binomial Probability Distributions

5-4 Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation for the Binomial Distribution

5-5 The Poisson Distribution



6. Normal Probability Distributions

6-1 Review and Preview

6-2 The Standard Normal Distribution

6-3 Applications of Normal Distributions

6-4 Sampling Distributions and Estimators

6-5 The Central Limit Theorem

6-6 Normal as Approximation to Binomial

6-7 Assessing Normality



7. Estimates and Sample Sizes

7-1 Review and Preview

7-2 Estimating at Population Proportion

7-3 Estimating Population Mean: ? Known

7-4 Estimating a Population Mean: ? Not Known

7-5 Estimating a Population Variance



8. Hypothesis Testing

8-1 Review and Preview

8-2 Basics of Hypothesis Testing

8-3 Testing a Claim About a Proportion

8-4 Testing a Claim About a Mean: ? Known

8-5 Testing a Claim About a Mean: ? Not Known

8-6 Testing a Claim About Variation



9. Inferences from Two Samples

9-1 Review and Preview

9-2 Inferences About Two Proportions

9-3 Inferences About Two Means: Independent Samples

9-4 Inferences from Matched Pairs

9-5 Comparing Variation in Two Samples



10. Correlation and Regression

10-1 Review and Preview

10-2 Correlation

10-3 Contingency Tables

10-4 Variation and Prediction Intervals

10-5 Multiple Regression

10-6 Modeling



11. Goodness-of-Fit and Contingency Tables

11-1 Review and Preview

11-2 Goodness-of-Fit

11-3 Contingency Tables

11-4 McNemar's Test for Matched Pairs



12. Analysis of Variance

12-1 Review and Preview

12-2 One-Way ANOVA

12-3 Two-Way ANOVA



13. Nonparametric Statistics

13-1 Review and Preview

13-2 Sign Test

13-3 Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test for Matched Pairs

13-4 Wilcoxon Ranked-Sum Test for Two Independent Samples

13-5 Kruskal-Wallis Test

13-6 Rank Correlation

13-7 Runs Test for Randomness



14. Statistics Process Control

14-1 Review and Preview

14-2 Control Charts for Variation and Mean

14-3 Control Charts for Attributes



15. Projects, Procedures, Perspectives

15-1 Projects

15-2 Procedure

15-3 Perspective



Appendices

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: Data Sets

Appendix C: Bibliography of Books and Websites

Appendix D: Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises (and All Review Exercises and All Cumulative Review Exercises)



Credits

Index