Statistics : informed decisions using data

Part I:  Getting the Information You Need
Chapter 1  Data Collection
1.1   Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
1.2   Observational Studies and Experiments
1.3   Simple Random Sampling
1.4   Other Effective Sampling Methods
1.5   Bias in Sampling
1.6   The Design of Experiments
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend?
Case Study:  Chrysalises for Cash
Part II:  Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 2  Creating Tables and Drawing Pictures of Data
            2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data
            2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data: The Population Displays
            2.3 Additional Displays of Quantitative Data
            2.4 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs?
Case Study:  The Day the Sky Roared
Chapter 3  Numerically Summarizing Data 
            3.1 Measures of Central Tendency
            3.2 Measures of Dispersion
            3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data
            3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers
            3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?
Case Study: Who Was “A Mourner”?
Chapter 4  Describing the Relation Between Two Variables
            4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation
            4.2 Least-Squares Regression
            4.3 Diagnostics on the Least-Squares Regression Line
            4.4 Contingency Tables and Association
            4.5 Nonlinear Regression: Transformations (on CD)
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Relationships of Variables on a World Scale
Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence
Part III: Probability and Probability Distributions
Chapter 5  Probability
            5.1 Probability Rules
            5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements
            5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule
            5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule
            5.5 Counting Techniques
            5.6 Putting It Together: Probability         
            5.7 Bayes’s Rule (on CD)
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: The Effects of Drinking and Driving
Case Study:  The Case of the Body in the Bag
Chapter 6  Discrete Probability Distributions
            6.1 Discrete Random Variables
            6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution
            6.3 The Poisson Probability Distribution
            6.4 The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution (on CD)
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?
Case Study:  The Voyage of the St. Andrew
Chapter 7  The Normal Probability Distribution
            7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution
            7.2 Applications of the Normal Distribution
            7.3 Assessing Normality
            7.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking
Case Study:  A Tale of Blood, Chemistry, and Health
Part IV:  Inferences – From Samples to Population
Chapter 8  Sampling Distributions
            8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean
            8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day?
Case Study:  Sampling Distribution of the Median
Chapter 9  Estimating the Value of a Parameter Using Confidence Intervals
9.1 Estimating a Population Proportion
9.2 Estimating a Population Mean
9.3 Confidence Intervals for a Population Standard Deviation
9.4 Putting It Together: Which Procedure Do I Use?
9.5 Estimating with Bootstrapping (NEW)
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: How Much Should I Spend for this House?
Case Study:  Fire-Safe Cigarettes
Chapter 10  Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter
            10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing
            10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion
            10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean
            10.4 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Standard Deviation
            10.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
            10.6 The Probability of a Type II Error and the Power of the Test
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Selecting a Mutual Fund
Case Study:  How Old Is Stonehenge?
Chapter 11  Inference on Two Samples
            11.1 Inference about Two Proportions
11.2 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples
            11.3 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples
            11.4 Inference about Two Standard Deviations
            11.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Which Car Should I Buy?
Case Study: Control in the Design of Experiment
Chapter 12  Inference on Categorical Data
            12.1 Goodness of Fit Test
            12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College
Case Study: Feeling Lucky? Well, Are You?
Chapter 13  Comparing Three or More Means
            13.1 Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance)
            13.2 Post-Hoc Tests on One-Way Analysis of Variance
            13.3 The Randomized Complete Block Design
            13.4 Two-Way Analysis of Variance
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Invest?  Part II
Case Study: Hat Size and Intelligence
Chapter 14  Inference of the Least-Squares Regression Model and Multiple
                     Regression
            14.1 Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model
            14.2 Confidence and Prediction Intervals
            14.3 Multiple Regression
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Buying a Home
Case Study: Housing Boom
Chapter 15  Nonparametric Statistics
            15.1 An Overview of Nonparametric Statistics
            15.2 Runs Test for Randomness
            15.3 Inferences about Measures of Central Tendency
            15.4 Inferences about the Difference between Two Medians: Dependent Samples
            15.5 Inferences about the Difference between Two Medians: Independent     
                    Samples
            15.6 Spearman’s Rank-Correlation Test
            15.7 Kruskal-Wallis Test
            Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Live?
Case Study: Evaluating Alabama’s 1891 House Bill 504
Appendix A  Tables
Appendix B  Lines  (on CD)
Answers
Index