April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
20h 32m
English
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Contents
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
2 ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF DATA
2 Describing Data by Tables and Graphs
5 Checking the Stability of the Observations Over Time
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)
2 Methods of Assigning Probability
3 Event Operations and Two Laws of Probability
4 Conditional Probability and Independence
6 Random Sampling from a Finite Population
Case Study: Statistics in Context
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
6 The Poisson Distribution and Rare Events
1 Probability Model for a Continuous Random Variable
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