Understandable Statistics:

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ISBN: 9780618896967

ISBN-10: 0618896961

ISBN-13: 9780618896967

Edition: 8th 2007

Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

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Understandable Statistics is a thorough, yet approachable statistics text. Designed to help students overcome their apprehension about statistics, the text provides guidance and informal advice showing students the links between statistics and the world. To reinforce this approach, the book integrates real-life data selected from a variety of sources including journals, periodicals, newspapers and the internet. The use of the graphing calculator, Excel, Minitab and SPSS is covered, but not required. The new Enhanced Edition includes new critical thinking and statistical literacy content, extensive technology resources including a new algorithmic test bank, new lecture slides (PowerPoint),…

Book details

List price: $371.95
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Binding: Cloth Text
Language: English

Charles Brase has more than 30 years of full-time teaching experience in mathematics and statistics. He taught at the University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, for several years and at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, for more than 28 years. Charles received the Excellence in Teaching award from the University of Hawaii and the Faculty Member of the Year from Regis University on two occasions. He earned degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has a Ph.D. in Mathematics, an M.A. in Mathematics, and a B.A. in Physics.

Corrinne has taught at Hawaii Pacific College, Honolulu Community College, and Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado. She was also involved in the mathematics component of an equal opportunity program at the University of Colorado. Corrinne received the Faculty of the Year award from Arapahoe Community College. She earned degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has an M.A. and B.A. in Mathematics.




Getting Started


Focus Problem: Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?



What Is Statistics?



Random Samples



Introduction to Experimental Design



Organizing Data


Focus Problem: Say It with Pictures



Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs



Frequency Distribution, Histograms, and Related Topics



Stem-and-Leaf Displays



Averages and Variation


Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage



Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean



Measures of Variation



Mean and Standard Deviation of Grouped Data



Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 1-3



Elementary Probability Theory


Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie?



What Is Probability?



Some Probability Rules--Compound Events



Trees and Counting Techniques



The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics


Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert or Extrovert?



Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions



Binomial Probabilities



Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution



The Geometric and Poissson Probability Distributions



Normal Distributions


Focus Problem: Large Auditorium Shows: How Many Will Attend?



Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions



Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution



Areas Under Any Normal Curve



Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution


Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 4-6



Introduction to Sampling Distributions


Focus Problem: Impulse Buying



Sampling Distributions



The Central Limit Theorem



Sampling Distribution for Proportions



Estimation


Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks



Estimating? When s Is Known



Estimating? When s Is Unknown



Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution



Choosing the Sample Size



Estimating?1-?2 and p1-p2



Hypothesis Testing


Focus Problem: Benford's Law: The Importance of Being Number 1



Introduction to Statistical Tests



Testing the Mean?



Testing the Proportion p



Tests Involving Paired Differenced (Dependent Samples)



Testing?1-?2 and p1-p2 (Independent Samples) Cumulative


Review Problems: Chapters 7-9



Correlation and Regression


Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate



Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation



Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination



Inferences for Correlation and Regression



Multiple Regression



Chi-Square and F Distributions


Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeolog?



Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution


Overview of the Chi-Square Distribution



Chi Square: Tests of Independence



Chi Square: Goodness of Fit



Testing and Estimating a Single Variance or Standard Deviatio?



Inferences Using the F Distribution



Testing Two Variances



One-Way ANOVA: Comparing Several Sample Means



Introduction to Two-Way ANOVA



Nonparametric Statistics


Focus Problem: How Cold? Compared to What?



The Sign Test for Matched Pairs



The Rank-Sum Test



Spearman Rank Correlation



Runs Test for Randomness


Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 10-12



Additional Topic?



Bayes's Theore?



The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution



Tables



Random Numbers



Binomial Coefficients Cn,r



Binomial Probability Distribution Cn,rprqn-r



Poisson Probability Distribution



Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution



Critical Values for Student's t Distribution



The x2 Distrubtion



Critical Values for F Distrubtion



Critical Values for Spearman Rank Correlation, rs



Critical Values for Number of Runs R



Critical Thinking and Statistical Literacy



Getting Started



Organizing Data



Averages and Variation



Elementary Probability Theorem



The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics



Normal Distributions



Introduction to Sampling Distributions



Estimation



Hypothesis Testing



Correlation and Regression



Chi-Square and F Distributions Answers and Key Steps to Odd-Numbered Problems


Index