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| Introduction | |
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| What is Statistics | |
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| Types of Statistics Case Study 1-1 Collegians Charge On | |
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| Population vs. Sample | |
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| Most Do Not Know Their Mail Carrier | |
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| Yes, Looks Can Kill Your Chance for a Job | |
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| Basic Terms | |
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| Types of Variables | |
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| Cross-Section vs. Time-Series Data | |
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| Sources of Data | |
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| Summation Notation | |
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| Uses & Misuses | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Self Review Test | |
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| Mini Project | |
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| Organizing Data | |
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| Raw Data | |
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| Organizing and Graphing Qualitative Data | |
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| If You Are Productive, It Must Be Tuesday | |
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| Favorite Donut Flavors | |
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| Organizing and Graphing Quantitative Data | |
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| Graduates in Debt | |
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| Shapes of Histograms | |
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| Using Truncated Axes | |
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| Cumulative Frequency Distributions | |
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| Stem-and-Leaf Displays | |
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| Numerical Descriptive Measures | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency for Ungrouped Data | |
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| Lifespan of $1 Bill: 18 Months | |
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| Education and Earnings | |
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| Measures of Dispersion for Ungrouped Data | |
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| Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation for Grouped Data | |
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| Here Comes the SD | |
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| Use of Standard Deviation | |
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| Measures of Position | |
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| Box-and-Whisper Plot | |
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| Probability | |
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| Experiment, Outcomes & Sample Space | |
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| Calculating Probability | |
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| Counting Rule | |
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| Marginal & Conditional Probabilities | |
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| Facing a Crowd Isn"t Easy | |
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| Mutually Exclusive Events | |
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| Independent vs. Dependent Events | |
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| Complementary Events | |
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| Intersection of Events & the Multiplication Rule | |
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| Baseball Players Have "Slumps" and "Streaks" | |
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| Union of Events and the Addition Rule | |
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| Discrete Random Variables & Their Probability Distributions | |
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| Random Variables | |
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| Probability Distribution of a Discrete Random Variable | |
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| Mean of a Discrete Random Variable | |
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| Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random Variable | |
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| Aces High Instant Lottery Game | |
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| Factorials and Combinations | |
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| Playing Lotto | |
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| The Binomial Probability Distribution | |
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| The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution | |
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| The Poisson Probability Distribution | |
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| Ask Mr. Statistics | |
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| Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution | |
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| Continuous Probability Distribution | |
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| Distribution of Time Taken to Run a Road Race | |
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| The Normal Distribution | |
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| The Standard Normal Distribution | |
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| Standardizing a Normal Distriution | |
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| Applications of the Normal Distribution | |
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| Determining the z and x Values When an Area Under the Normal Distribution Curve is Known | |
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| The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| Population and Sampling Distributions | |
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| Sampling and Non-Sampling Errors | |
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| Mean and Standard Deviation of x | |
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| Shape of the Sampling Distribution x | |
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| Applications of the Sampling Distribution of x | |
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| Population and Sample Proportions | |
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| Mean, Standard Deviation, and Shape of the Sampling Distribution of p | |
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| Calling the Vote for Congress | |
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| Estimation of the Mean and Proportion | |
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| Estimation: An Introduction | |
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| Point and Interval Estimates | |
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| Interval Estimation of a Population Mean: Large Samples | |
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| Where Your Energy Dollar Goes | |
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| Interval Estimation of a Population Proportion: Small Samples | |
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| Cardiac Demands of Heavy Snow Shoveling | |
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| Interval Estimation of a Population Proportion: Large Samples | |
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| What Is Causing Job Stress? | |
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| Determining the Sample Size for the Estimation of Mean | |
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| Determining the Sample Size for the Estimation of Proportion | |
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| Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion | |
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| Hypothesis Tests: An Introduction | |
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| Hypothesis Tests About & for Large samples Using the p-Value Approach | |
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| Hypothesis Tests About a Population Mean: Large Samples | |
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| Hypothesis Tests About a Population Mean: Small Samples | |
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| Hypothesis Tests About a Population Proportion: Large Samples | |
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| Employees" Concerns | |
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| Estimation & Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations | |
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| Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means For Large and Independent Samples | |
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| Inferences About the Difference Between Two Populations Means for Small and Independent Samples: Equal Standard Deviations | |
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| Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means for Small and Independent Samples: Unequal Standard Deviations | |
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| Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means for Paired Samples | |
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| Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Proportions for Large and Independent Samples | |
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| Teenagers Butt Out of Smoking | |
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| Chi Square Tests | |
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| The Chi Square Distribution | |
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| A Goodeness-of-Fit Test | |
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| Up with "the Color Purple" | |
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| Contingency Tables | |
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| A Test of Independence or Homogeneity | |
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| Inferences About the Population Variance | |
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| Analysis of Variance | |
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| The F Distribution | |
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| One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
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| Simple Linear Regression | |
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| Simple Linear Regression Model | |
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| Simple Linear Regression Analysis | |
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| Standard Deviation of Random Errors | |
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| Coefficient of Determination | |
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| Inferences About B | |
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| Linear Correlation | |
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| Regression Analysis: A Complete Example | |
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| Using the Regression Model | |
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| Cautions in Using Regression | |
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| Nonparametric Methods | |
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| The Sign Test | |
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| The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for Two Dependent Samples | |
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| The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test for Two Independent Samples | |
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| The Kruskal-Wallis Test | |
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| The Spearman Rho Rank Correlation Coefficient Test | |
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| The Runs Test for Randomness | |
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| Sample Surveys, Sampling Techniques, and Design Experiments | |
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| Sources of Data | |
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| Internal Sources | |
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| External Sources | |
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| Surveys and Experiments | |
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| Sample Surveys and Sampling Techniques | |
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| Why Sample | |
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| Random and Nonrandom Samples | |
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| Sampling and Nonsampling Errors | |
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| Random Sampling Techniques | |
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| Design of Experiments | |
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| Explanation of Data Sets | |
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| City Data | |
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| Data On States | |
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| NBA Data | |
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| Population Data on Manchester Road Race | |
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| Sample of 500 Observations Selected from Manchester Road Race Data | |
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| Statistical Tables | |
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| Table of Binomial Probabilities | |
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| Values of e- | |
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| Table of Poisson Probabilities | |
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| Standard Normal Distribution Table | |
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| The t Distribution Table | |
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| Chi-Square Distribution Table | |
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| The F Distribution Table | |
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| Critical Values of X for the Sign Test | |
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| Critical Values of T for the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test | |
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| Critical Values of T for the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test | |
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| Critical Values for the Spearman Rho Rank Correlation Coefficient Test | |
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| Critical Values for a Two-Tailed Runs Test with a = .05 | |
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| Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Exercises and Self-Review Tests | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |