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| Introduction | |
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| Why You Need This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Hundreds of Practice Questions Online! | |
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| Overview | |
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| Types of Statistics | |
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| Numerical statistics | |
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| Pictorial statistics | |
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| Method of Statistical Inference | |
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| Steps in the Process | |
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| Making Predictions | |
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| Comparing Results | |
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| Probability | |
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| Common Statistics Mistakes | |
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| Graphic Displays | |
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| Bar Chart | |
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| Pie Chart | |
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| Dot Plot | |
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| Ogive | |
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| Frequency Histogram | |
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| Relative Frequency Histogram | |
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| Frequency Polygon | |
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| Frequency Distribution | |
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| Stem-and-Leaf | |
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| Box Plot (Box-and-Whiskers) | |
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| Scatter Plot | |
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| Numerical Measures | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency | |
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| Mean | |
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| Median | |
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| Mode | |
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| Notation and formulae | |
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| Mean for grouped data | |
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| Median for grouped data | |
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| Symmetric distribution | |
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| Skewed curves | |
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| Measures of Variability | |
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| Range | |
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| Deviation and variance | |
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| Standard deviation | |
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| Notation | |
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| Empirical rule: The normal curve | |
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| Shortcut formulae | |
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| Percentile | |
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| Quartiles and interquartile range | |
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| Measurement Scales | |
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| Probability | |
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| Classic Theory | |
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| Relative Frequency Theory | |
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| Probability of Simple Events | |
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| Independent Events | |
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| Dependent Events | |
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| Probability of Joint Occurrences | |
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| Multiplication rule | |
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| Addition rule | |
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| Non-Mutually-Exclusive Outcomes | |
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| Double-Counting | |
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| Conditional Probability | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| Discrete vs. continuous variables | |
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| Total of probabilities of discrete variables | |
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| The Binomial | |
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| Binomial experiments | |
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| Binomial table | |
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| Mean and standard deviation | |
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| Sampling | |
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| Populations, Samples, Parameters, and Statistics | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| Random and Systematic Error | |
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| Central Limit Theorem | |
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| Properties of the Normal Curve | |
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| Normal Approximation to the Binomial | |
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| Principles of Testing | |
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| Stating Hypotheses | |
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| The Test Statistic | |
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| One- and Two-Tailed Tests | |
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| Type I and II Errors | |
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| Significance | |
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| Point Estimates and Confidence Intervals | |
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| Estimating a Diff erence Score | |
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| Univariate Tests: An Overview | |
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| Univariate Inferential Tests | |
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| One-Sample z-test | |
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| Confidence interval for population mean using z | |
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| Choosing a sample size | |
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| One-Sample t-test | |
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| Confi dence interval for population mean using t | |
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| Two-Sample z-test for Comparing Two Means | |
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| Two-Sample t-test for Comparing Two Means | |
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| Confidence interval for comparing two means | |
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| Pooled variance method | |
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| Paired Difference t-test | |
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| Test for a Single Population Proportion | |
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| Confidence interval for a single population proportion | |
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| Choosing a sample size | |
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| Test for Comparing Two Proportions | |
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| Confidence interval for comparing two proportions | |
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| Bivariate Relationships | |
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| Correlation | |
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| Finding the significance of r | |
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| The coefficient of determination | |
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| Simple Linear Regression | |
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| Confidence interval for the slope | |
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| Confidence interval for prediction | |
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| Assumptions and cautions | |
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| Chi-Square (��2) | |
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| Review | |
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| Resource Center | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Common Mistakes | |
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| Tables | |
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| Index | |