Essential Statistics -- ACCUMULATOR

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Preface Index of Applications Introduction to Data Case Study—Deadly Cell Phones? 1.1 What Are Data? 1.2 Classifying and Storing Data 1.3 Organizing Categorical Data 1.4 Collecting Data to Understand Causality Data Project–How Are Data Stored? Picturing Variation with Graphs Case Study—Student-to-Teacher Ratio at Colleges 2.1 Visualizing Variation in Numerical Data 2.2 Summarizing Important Features of a Numerical Distribution 2.3 Visualizing Variation in Categorical Variables 2.4 Summarizing Categorical Distributions 2.5 Interpreting Graphs Data Project–Asking Questions Numerical Summaries of Center and Variation Case Study—Living in a Risky World 3.1 Summaries for Symmetric Distributions 3.2 What’s Unusual? The Empirical Rule and z-Scores 3.3 Summaries for Skewed Distributions 3.4 Comparing Measures of Center 3.5 Using Boxplots for Displaying Summaries Data Project–The Statistical Investigation Cycle Regression Analysis: Exploring Associations between Variables Case Study—Forecasting Home Prices 4.1 Visualizing Variability with a Scatterplot 4.2 Measuring Strength of Association with Correlation 4.3 Modeling Linear Trends 4.4 Evaluating the Linear Model Data Project–Data Moves Modeling Variation with Probability Case Study—SIDS or Murder? 5.1 What Is Randomness? 5.2 Finding Theoretical Probabilities 5.3 Associations in Categorical Variables 5.4 Finding Empirical Probabilities Data Project–Submitting Data Modeling Random Events: The Normal and Binomial Models Case Study—You Sometimes Get More Than You Pay For 6.1 Probability Distributions Are Models of Random Experiments 6.2 The Normal Model 6.3 The Binomial Model (optional) Data Project–Generating Random Numbers Survey Sampling and Inference Case Study—Spring Break Fever: Just What the Doctors Ordered? 7.1 Learning about the World through Surveys 7.2 Measuring the Quality of a Survey 7.3 The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Proportions 7.4 Estimating the Population Proportion with Confidence Intervals 7.5 Comparing Two Population Proportions with Confidence Data Project–Population Proportions Hypothesis Testing for Population Proportions Case Study—Dodging the Question 8.1 The Essential Ingredients of Hypothesis Testing 8.2 Hypothesis Testing in Four Steps 8.3 Hypothesis Tests in Detail 8.4 Comparing Proportions from Two Populations Data Project–Dates as Data Inferring Population Means Case Study—You Look Sick! Are You Sick? 9.1 Sample Means of Random Samples 9.2 The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Means 9.3 Answering Questions about the Mean of a Population 9.4 Hypothesis Testing for Means 9.5 Comparing Two Population Means 9.6 Overview of Analyzing Means Data Project–Data Structures Analyzing Categorical Variables and Interpreting Research Case Study—Popping Better Popcorn 10.1 The Basic Ingredients for Testing with Categorical Variables 10.2 Chi-Square Tests for Associations between Categorical Variables 10.3 Reading Research Papers Data Project–Think Small Appendix A Tables Appendix B Check Your Tech Answers Appendix C Credits Index

About the Author :
Robert L. Gould (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is a leader in the statistics education community. He has served as chair of the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Statistics Education Section, chair of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges/ASA Joint Committee, and has served on the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics/ASA Joint Committee. He served on a panel of co-authors for the 2005 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report and is co-author on the revision for the GAISE K-12 Report. As lead principal investigator of the NSF-funded Mobilize Project, he led the development of the first high school level data science course, which is taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District and several other districts.  Rob teaches in the Department of Statistics at UCLA, where he directs the undergraduate statistics program and is director of the UCLA Center for Teaching Statistics. In recognition for his activities in statistics education, in 2012 Rob was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is the 2019 recipient of the ASA Waller Distinguished Teaching Award and the USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award. In his free time, Rob plays the cello and enjoys attending concerts of all types and styles. Rebecca K. Wong has taught mathematics and statistics at West Valley College for more than twenty years. She enjoys designing activities to help students explore statistical concepts and encouraging students to apply those concepts to areas of personal interest. Rebecca earned at B.A. in mathematics and psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.S.T. in mathematics from Santa Clara University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State University. She has been recognized for outstanding teaching by the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development and the California Mathematics Council of Community Colleges. When not teaching, Rebecca is an avid reader and enjoys hiking trails with friends. Colleen N. Ryan has taught statistics, chemistry, and physics to diverse community college students for decades. She taught at Oxnard College from 1975 to 2006, where she earned the Teacher of the Year Award. Colleen currently teaches statistics part-time at Moorpark Community College. She often designs her own lab activities. Her passion is to discover new ways to make statistical theory practical, easy to understand, and sometimes even fun. Colleen earned a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College, an M.A.T. in physics from Harvard University, and an M.A. in chemistry from Wellesley College. Her first exposure to statistics was with Frederick Mosteller at Harvard. In her spare time, Colleen sings, has been an avid skier, and enjoys time with her family.