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Understandable Statistics

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ISBN-10: 1439047790

ISBN-13: 9781439047798

Edition: 9th 2010

Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

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List price: $218.95
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
Publication date: 4/17/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 848
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.290
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
Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics
Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs
Stem-and-Leaf Displays
Averages and Variation
Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage
Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Mediate, and Mean
Measures of Variation
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 Poisson 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 Distributions 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
Estimating?1-?2 and p1-p2
Cumulative Review Problems: Chapters 7-9
Hypothesis Testing
Focus Problem: Benford's Law: The Importance of Being Number
Introduction to Statistical Tests
Testing the Mean
Testing a Proportion p
Tests Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples)
Testing?1-?2 and p1-p2 (Independent Samples)
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: Archaeology in Bandelier National Monument
Inferences Using the Chi-Square Distribution
Overview of the Chi-Square Distribution
Chi-Square: Tests of Independence and of Homogeneity
Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit
Testing and Estimating a Single Variance or Standard Deviation
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 Topics
Bayes's Theorem
The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution
TABLES
Random Numbers
Binomial Coefficients
Binomial Probability Distribution
Poisson Probability Distribution
Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution
Critical Values for Student's t Distribution
The X2 Distribution
Critical Values for F Distribution
Critical Values for Spearman Rank Correlation
Critical Values for Number of Runs R