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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: An Invitation to Statistics | |
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| Describing data with graphs | |
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| Variables and Data | |
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| Types of Variables | |
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| Graphs for Categorical Data | |
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| Graphs for Quantitative Data | |
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| Relative Frequency Histograms | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| About Minitab?Introduction to Minitab | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: How Is Your Blood Pressure? | |
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| Describing data with numerical measures | |
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| Describing a Set of Data with Numerical Measures | |
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| Measures of Center | |
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| Measures of Variability | |
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| On the Practical Significance of the Standard Deviation | |
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| A Check on the Calculation of s | |
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| Measures of Relative Standing | |
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| The Five-Number Summary and the Box Plot | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| About MINITAB?Numerical Descriptive Measures | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: The Boys of Summer | |
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| Describing bivariate data | |
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| Bivariate Data | |
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| Graphs for Qualitative Variables | |
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| Scatterplots for Two Quantitative Variables | |
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| Numerical Measures for Quantitative Bivariate Data | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| About MINITAB?Describing Bivariate Data | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: Do You Think Your Dishes Are Really Clean? | |
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| Probability and probability distributions | |
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| The Role of Probability in Statistics | |
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| Events and the Sample Space | |
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| Calculating Probabilities Using Simple Events | |
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| Useful Counting Rules (Optional) | |
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| Event Relations and Probability Rules | |
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| Conditional Probability, Independence, and the Multiplicative Rule | |
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| Bayes' Rule (Optional) | |
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| Discrete Random Variables and their Probability Distributions | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| About Minitab?Discrete Probability Distributions | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: Probability and Decision Making in the Congo | |
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| Several useful discrete distributions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Binomial Probability Distribution | |
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| The Poisson Probability Distribution | |
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| The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| About Minitab?Binomial and Poisson Probabilities | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: A Mystery: Cancers Near a Reactor | |
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| The normal probability distribution | |
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| Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables | |
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| The Normal Probability Distribution | |
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| Tabulated Areas of the Normal Probability Distribution | |
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| The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution (Optional) | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| About Minitab?Normal Probabilities | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: The Long and Short of It | |
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| Sampling distributions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sampling Plans and Experimental Designs | |
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| Statistics and Sampling Distributions | |
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| The Central Limit Theorem | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean | |
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| The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion | |
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| A Sampling Application: Statistical Process Control (Optional) | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| About Minitab?The Central Limit Theorem at Work | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: Sampling the Roulette at Monte Carlo | |
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| Large-sample estimation | |
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| Where We've Been | |
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| Where We're Going?Statistical Inference | |
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| Types of Estimators | |
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| Point Estimation | |
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| Interval Estimation | |
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| Estimating the Difference between Two Population Means | |
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| Estimating the Difference between Two Binomial Proportions | |
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| One-Sided Confidence Bounds | |
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| Choosing the Sample Size | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: How Reliable Is That Poll? | |
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| Large-sample tests of hypotheses | |
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| Testing Hypotheses about Population Parameters | |
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| A Statistical Test of Hypothesis | |
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| A Large-Sample Test about a Population Mean | |
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| A Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis for the Difference between Two Population Means | |
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| A Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis for a Binomial Proportion | |
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| A Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis for the Difference between Two Binomial Proportions | |
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| Some Comments on Testing Hypotheses | |
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| Key Concepts and Formulas | |
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| Supplementary Exercises | |
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| Do It Yourself Exercises | |
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| Case Study: An Aspirin a Day?? | |
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| Inference from s | |