Statistics: Principles and Methods, 7th Edition

Contents

1 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

1 The Subject and Scope of Statistics

2 Statistics in Aid of Scientific Inquiry

3 Two Basic Concepts—Population and Sample

4 The Purposeful Collection of Data

Case Study: Statistics in Context

5 Objectives of Statistics

2 ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF DATA

1 Main Types of Data

2 Describing Data by Tables and Graphs

3 Measures of Center

4 Measures of Variation

5 Checking the Stability of the Observations Over Time

6 More on Graphics

Case Study: Statistics in Context

3 DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF BIVARIATE DATA

1 Summarization of Bivariate Categorical Data

2 A Designed Experiment for Making a Comparison

3 Scatter Diagram of Bivariate Measurement Data

4 The Correlation Coefficient—A Measure of Linear Relation

5 Prediction of One Variable from Another (Linear Regression)

4 PROBABILITY

1 Probability of an Event

2 Methods of Assigning Probability

3 Event Operations and Two Laws of Probability

4 Conditional Probability and Independence

5 Bayes' Theorem

6 Random Sampling from a Finite Population

Case Study: Statistics in Context

5 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

1 Random Variables

2 Probability Distribution of a Discrete Random Variable

3 Mean (Expected Value) and Standard Deviation of a Probability Distribution

4 Successes and Failures—Bernoulli Trials

5 The Binomial Distribution

6 The Poisson Distribution and Rare Events

6 THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

1 Probability Model for a Continuous Random Variable

2 The Normal Distribution—Its General Features

3 The Standard ...