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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Treatment of Data Using EXCEL, MINITAB, SAS, SPSS, and STATISTIX | |
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| Graphical Displays of Data | |
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| Descriptive Measures of Data | |
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| Measures of Relative Standing | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Probability | |
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| Sample Space, Events, and Operations on Events | |
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| The Multiplicative Rule, Permutations, and Combinations | |
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| Probability | |
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| The Axioms of Probability | |
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| Some Elementary Theorems (Rules) of Probability | |
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| Conditional Probability | |
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| Bayes' Theorem | |
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| Mathematical Expectation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables | |
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| Random Variables | |
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| The Mean and Standard Deviation of a Probability Distribution | |
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| Chebyshev's Theorem | |
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| The Binomial Distribution | |
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| The Hypergeometric Distribution | |
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| The Geometric Distribution | |
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| The Negative Binomial Distribution | |
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| The Poisson Distribution | |
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| The Multinomial Distribution | |
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| Simulation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Probability Densities for Continuous Random Variables and Introduction to MAPLE | |
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| Continuous Random Variables | |
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| The Normal Distribution | |
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| The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
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| The Uniform Distribution | |
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| The Log-Normal Distribution | |
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| The Gamma Distribution | |
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| The Beta Distribution | |
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| The Weibull Distribution | |
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| Joint Distributions-Discrete and Continuous | |
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| Checking Data for Normality | |
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| Transforming Observations to Near Normality | |
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| Simulation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| Populations and Samples | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of the Mean ([sigma] Known) | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of the Mean ([sigma] Unknown) | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of the Proportion | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of the Variance | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Inferences Concerning Means | |
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| Point Estimation | |
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| Interval Estimation | |
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| Basic Concepts of Testing Hypotheses | |
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| Testing Hypothesis About a Single Mean | |
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| The Relationship between Tests of Hypothesis and Confidence Intervals | |
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| Inferences Concerning Two Means-Independent and Large Samples | |
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| Inferences Concerning Two Means-Independent and Small Samples | |
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| Inferences Concerning Two Means-Dependent Samples | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Inferences Concerning Variances | |
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| The Estimation of Variances | |
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| Hypotheses Concerning One Variance | |
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| Hypotheses Concerning Two Variances | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Inferences Concerning Proportions | |
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| Estimation of Proportions | |
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| Hypotheses Concerning One Proportion | |
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| Hypotheses Concerning Two Proportions | |
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| Hypotheses Concerning Several Proportions | |
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| The Analysis of r x c Tables | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Final Examinations | |
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| Solutions to Chapter Exercises and Final Exams | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |