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| Introduction | |
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| What is Statistics? | |
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| Statistics in Our Everyday Life | |
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| Statistics in Aid of Scientific Inquiry | |
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| Two Basic Concepts- Population and Sample | |
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| The Purposeful Collection of Data | |
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| Statistics in Context | |
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| Objectives of Statistics | |
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| Review Exercises. | |
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| Organization and Description of Data | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Main Types of Data | |
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| Describing Data by Tables and Graphs | |
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| Measures of Center | |
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| Measures of Variation | |
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| Checking the Stability of the Observations over Time | |
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| More on Graphics | |
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| Statistics in Context | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Descriptive Study of Bivariate Data | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Summarization of Bivariate Categorical Data | |
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| A Designed Experiment for Making a Comparison | |
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| Scatter Diagram of Bivariate Measurement Data | |
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| The Correlation Coefficient- A Measure of Linear Relation | |
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| Prediction of One Variable from Another (Linear Regression) | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Probability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Probability of an Event | |
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| Methods of Assigning Probability | |
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| Event Relations and Two Laws of Probability | |
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| Conditional Probability and Independence | |
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| Random Sampling from a Finite Population | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Random Variables | |
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| Probability Distribution of a Discrete Random Variable | |
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| Expectation (Mean) and Standard Deviation of a Probability Distribution | |
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| Success and Failures- Bernoulli Trials | |
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| The Binomal Distribution | |
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| The Binomal Distribution in Context | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| The Normal Distribution | |
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| Probability Model for a Continuous Random Variable | |
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| The Normal Distribution-Its General Features | |
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| The Standard Normal Distribution | |
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| Probability Calculations with Normal Distributions | |
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| The Normal Approximation to the Binomial | |
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| Checking the Plausibility of a Normal Model | |
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| Transforming Observations to Attain Near Normality | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Variation in Repeated Samples-Sampling Distribution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of a Statistic | |
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| Distribution of the Sample Mean and the Central Limit Theorem | |
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| Statistics in Context | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Drawing Inferences From Large Samples | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Point Estimation of Population Mean | |
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| Confidence Interval for a Population Mean | |
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| Testing Hypotheses about a Population Mean | |
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| Inferences about a Population Proportion | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Small-Sample Inferences for Normal Populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Independent Random Samples from Two Populations | |
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| Inferences about -Small Sample Size | |
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| Relationship between Tests and Confidence Intervals | |
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| Inferences about Standard Deviation (The Chi-Square D | |