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With an emphasis on exploratory data analysis, "Basic Statistics and Data Analysis" teaches students to identify trends in their data that will help them ask the right questions. Rather than leading students through operations on data, this modern textbook stresses hands-on experience with more than 200 real data sets and approximately 1000 exercises in the book. This new text, a basic version of Larry Kitchens' groundbreaking text, "Exploring Statistics", develops students' statistical intuition and nurtures the development of a statistical way of thinking. The author has shaped this text specifically for the elementary statistics course, leaving out the more advanced topics from his previous book. MINITAB[trademark] is the main statistical analysis software utilized in the text.

Table of Contents:
Preface. Introduction: An Invitation to Statistics. 1. DESCRIBING DATA WITH GRAPHS. Variables and Data. Types of Variables. Graphs for Categorical Data. Graphs for Quantitative Data. Relative Frequency Histograms. Key Concepts. About MINITAB?Introduction to MINITAB. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: How Is Your Blood Pressure? 2. DESCRIBING DATA WITH NUMERICAL MEASURES. Describing a Set of Data with Numerical Measures. Measures of Center. Measures of Variability. On the Practical Significance of the Standard Deviation. A Check on the Calculation of s. Measures of Relative Standing. The Five-Number Summary and the Box Plot. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Numerical Descriptive Measures. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: The Boys of Summer. 3. DESCRIBING BIVARIATE DATA. Bivariate Data. Graphs for Qualitative Variables. Scatterplots for Two Quantitative Variables. Numerical Measures for Quantitative Bivariate Data. Key Concepts. About MINITAB?Describing Bivariate Data. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: Do You Think Your Dishes Are Really Clean? 4. PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. The Role of Probability in Statistics. Events and the Sample Space. Calculating Probabilities Using Simple Events. Useful Counting Rules (Optional). Event Relations and Probability Rules. Conditional Probability, Independence, and the Multiplicative Rule. Bayes' Rule (Optional). Discrete Random Variables and their Probability Distributions. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Discrete Probability Distributions. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: Probability and Decision Making in the Congo. 5. SEVERAL USEFUL DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS. Introduction. The Binomial Probability Distribution. The Poisson Probability Distribution. The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Binomial and Poisson Probabilities. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: A Mystery: Cancers Near a Reactor. 6. THE NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION. Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables. The Normal Probability Distribution. Tabulated Areas of the Normal Probability Distribution. The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution (Optional). Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Normal Probabilities. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: The Long and Short of It. 7. SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS. Introduction. Sampling Plans and Experimental Designs. Statistics and Sampling Distributions. The Central Limit Theorem. The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean. The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion. A Sampling Application: Statistical Process Control (Optional). Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?The Central Limit Theorem at Work. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: Sampling the Roulette at Monte Carlo. 8. LARGE-SAMPLE ESTIMATION. Where We've Been. Where We're Going?Statistical Inference. Types of Estimators. Point Estimation. Interval Estimation. Estimating the Difference between Two Population Means. Estimating the Difference between Two Binomial Proportions. One-Sided Confidence Bounds. Choosing the Sample Size. Key Concepts and Formulas. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: How Reliable Is That Poll? 9. LARGE-SAMPLE TESTS OF HYPOTHESES. Testing Hypotheses about Population Parameters. A Statistical Test of Hypothesis. A Large-Sample Test about a Population Mean. A Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis for the Difference between Two Population Means. A Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis for a Binomial Proportion. A Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis for the Difference between Two Binomial Proportions. Some Comments on Testing Hypotheses. Key Concepts and Formulas. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: An Aspirin a Day?? 10. INFERENCE FROM SMALL SAMPLES. Introduction. Student's t Distribution. Small-Sample Inferences Concerning a Population Mean. Small-Sample Inferences for the Difference between Two Population Means: Independent Random Samples. Small-Sample Inferences for the Difference between Two Means: A Paired-Difference Test. Inferences Concerning a Population Variance. Comparing Two Population Variances. Revisiting the Small-Sample Assumptions. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Small-Sample Testing and Estimation. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: How Would You Like a Four-Day Work Week? 11. THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE. The Design of an Experiment. What Is an Analysis of Variance? The Assumptions for an Analysis of Variance. The Completely Randomized Design: A One-Way Classification. The Analysis of Variance for a Completely Randomized Design. Ranking Population Means. The Randomized Block Design: A Two-Way Classification. The Analysis of Variance for a Randomized Block Design. The a x b Factorial Experiment: A Two-Way Classification. The Analysis of Variance for an a x b Factorial Experiment. Revisiting the Analysis of Variance Assumptions. A Brief Summary. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB--Analysis of Variance Procedures. Supplementary Exercises. Case Study: "A Fine Mess". 12. LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION. Introduction. A Simple Linear Probabilistic Model. The Method of Least Squares. An Analysis of Variance for Linear Regression. Testing the Usefulness of the Linear Regression Model. Diagnostic Tools for Checking the Regression Assumptions. Estimation and Prediction Using the Fitted Line. Correlation Analysis. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Linear Regression Procedures. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: Is Your Car "Made in the U.S.A. "? 13. MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS. Introduction. The Multiple Regression Model. A Multiple Regression Analysis. A Polynomial Regression Model. Using Quantitative and Qualitative Predictor Variables in a Regression Model. Testing Sets of Regression Coefficients. Interpreting Residual Plots. Stepwise Regression Analysis. Misinterpreting a Regression Analysis. Steps to Follow when Building a Multiple Regression Model. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?Multiple Regression Procedures. Supplementary Exercises. Case Study: "Made in the U.S.A."?Another Look. 14. ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA. A Description of the Experiment. Pearson's Chi-Square Statistic. Testing Specified Cell Probabilities: The Goodness-of-Fit Test. Contingency Tables: A Two-Way Classification. Comparing Several Multinomial Populations: A Two-Way Classification with Fixed Row or Column Totals. The Equivalence of Statistical Tests. Other Applications of the Chi-Square Test. Key Concepts and Formulas. About MINITAB?The Chi-Square Test. Supplementary Exercises. Do It Yourself Exercises. Case Study: Can a Marketing Approach Improve Library Services? 15. NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS. Introduction. The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test: Independent Random Samples. The Sign Test for a Paired Experiment. A Comparison of Statistical Tests. The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for a Paired Experiment. The Kruskal-Wallis H Test for Completely Randomized Designs. The Friedman Fr Test for Randomized Block Designs. Rank Correlation Coefficient. Summary. Key Concepts and Formulas. Supplementary Exercises. About MINITAB?Nonparametric Procedures. Case Study: How's Your Cholesterol Level? Appendix I: Tables. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index. Credits.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780534384654
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Brooks/Cole
  • Height: 262 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1339 gr
  • ISBN-10: 053438465X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Aug 2002
  • Binding: SA
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 198 mm


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