Title:
Statistics
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Edition:
6th ed.
Publication Information:
New York : MacMillan, 1994
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1v + 1 disk (DSK 918)
ISBN:
9780023792113
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Table of Contents
| 1 Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking |
| The Science of Statistics |
| Types of Statistical Applications |
| Fundamental Elements of Statistics |
| Types of Data |
| Collecting Data |
| The Role of Statistics in Critical Thinking |
| 2 Methods for Describing Sets of Data |
| Describing Qualitative Data |
| Graphical Methods for Describing Quantitative Data |
| Summation Notation |
| Numerical Measures of Central Tendency |
| Numerical Measures of Variability |
| Interpreting the Standard Deviation |
| Numerical Measures of Relative Standing |
| Methods for Detecting Outliers (Optional) |
| Graphing Bivariate Relationships (Optional) |
| Distorting the Truth with Descriptive Techniques |
| 3 Probability |
| Events, Sample Spaces, and Probability |
| Unions and Intersections |
| Complementary Events |
| The Additive Rule and Mutually Exclusive Events |
| Conditional Probability |
| The Multiplicative Rule and Independent Events |
| Random Sampling |
| Some Counting Rules (Optional) |
| 4 Discrete Random Variables |
| Two Types of Random Variables |
| Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables |
| Expected Values of Discrete Random Variables |
| The Binomial Random Variable |
| The Poisson Random Variable (Optional) |
| The Hypergeometric Random Variable (Optional) |
| 5 Continuous Random Variables |
| Continuous Probability Distributions |
| The Uniform Distribution |
| The Normal Distribution |
| Descriptive Methods for Assessing Normality |
| Approximating a Binomial Distribution with a Normal Distribution (Optional) |
| The Exponential Distribution (Optional) |
| 6 Sampling Distributions |
| What Is a Sampling Distribution? Properties of Sampling Distributions |
| Unbiasedness and Minimum Variance (Optional) |
| The Central Limit Theorem |
| 7 Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals |
| Large-Sample Confidence Interval for a Population Mean |
| Small-Sample Confidence Interval for a Population Mean |
| Large-Sample Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion |
| Determining the Sample Size |
| 8 Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypotheses |
| The Elements of a Test of Hypothesis |
| Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis about a Population Mean |
| Observed Significance Levels: p-Values |
| Small-Sample Test of Hypothesis about a Population Mean |
| Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis about a Population Proportion |
| Calculating Type II Error Probabilities: More about hellip;b (Optional) |
| Test of Hypothesis about a Population Proportion |
| 9 Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses |
| Comparing Two Population Means: Independent Sampling |
| Comparing Two Population Means: Paired Difference Experiments |
| Comparing Two Population Proportions: Independent Sampling |
| Determining the Sample Size |
| Comparing Two Population Variances: Independent Sampling (Optional) |
| 10 Analysis of Variance: Comparing More Than Two Means |
| Elements of a Designed Experiment |
| The Completely Randomized Design |
| Multiple Comparisons of Means |
| The Randomized Block Design |
| Factorial Experiments |
| 11 Simple Linear Regression |
| Probabalistic Models |
| Fitting the Model: The Least Squares Approach |
| Model Assumptions |
| An Estimator of hellip;s2 |
| Assessing the Utility of the Model: Making Inferences about the Slope hellip;b1 |
| The Coefficient of Correlation |
| The Coefficient of Determination |
| Using the Model for Estimation and Prediction |
| A Complete Example |
| 12 Multiple Regression and Model Building |
| Multiple Regression Models |
| The First-Order Model: Estimating and Interpreting the hellip;b Parameters |
| Model Assumptions |
| Inferences About the Individual hellip;b Parameters |
| Checking the Overall Utility of a Model |
| Using the Model for Estimation and Prediction |
| Model Building: Interaction Models |
| Model Building: Quadratic and Other Higher-Order Models |
| Model Building: Qualitative (Dummy) Variable Models |
| Model Building: Models with Both Quantitative and Qualitative Variables |
| Model Building: Comparing Nested Models |
| Model Building: Stepwise Regression |
| Residual Analysis: Checking the Regression Assumptions |
| Some Pitfalls: Estimability, Multicollinearity, and Extrapolation |
| 13 Categorical Data Analysis |
| Categorical Data and the Multinomial Distribution |
| Testing Categorical Probabilities: One-Way Table |
| Testing Categorical Probabilities: Two-Way (Contingency) Table |
| A Word of Caution about Chi-Square Tests |
| 14 Nonparametric Statistics |
| Introduction: Distribution-Free Tests |
| Single Population Inferences: The Sign Test |
| Comparing Two Populations: The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test for Independent Samples |
| Comparing Two Populations: The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for the Paired Difference Experiment |
| The Kruskal-Wallis H-Test for a Completely Randomized Design |
| The Friedman F r -Test for a Randomized Block Design |
| Spearman''s Rank Correlation Coefficient |
| Appendix A Tables Random Numbers |
| Binomial Probabilities |
| Poisson Probabilities |
| Normal Curve Areas |
| Exponentials |
| Critical Values of t |
| Critical Values of hellip;c2 |
| Percentage Points of the F Distribution, hellip;a= .10 |
| Percentage Points of the F Distribution, hellip;a=.05 |
| Percentage Points of the F Distribution, hellip;a=.025 |
| Percentage Points of the F Distribution, hellip;a=.01 |
| Critical Values of T L and T U for the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test: Independent Samples |
| Critical Values of T O in the Wilcoxon Paired Difference Signed Rank Test |
| Critical Values of Spearman''s Rank Correlation Coefficient |
| Appendix B Data Sets |
| Coronary Artery Patients'' Blood Loss Data |
| Car & Driver Data |
| Starting Salaries of USF Graduates |
| Sealed Milk Bids Data |
| Federal Trade Commission Rankings of Domestic Cigarette Brands |
| Appendix C Calculation Formulas for Analysis of Variance |
| Short Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Exercises |
| Index |
