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Preface Supplements How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course Applications Index 1. Speaking of Statistics 1.1 What Is/Are Statistics? 1.2 Sampling 1.3 Types of Statistical Studies 1.4 Should You Believe a Statistical Study? FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGY: Are You Driving “Drunk” on Your Cell Phone? FOCUS ON PUBLIC HEALTH: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy? 2. Measurement in Statistics 2.1 Data Types and Levels of Measurement 2.2 Dealing with Errors 2.3 Uses of Percentages in Statistics 2.4 Index Numbers USING TECHNOLOGY: Inflation Calculator FOCUS ON POLITICS: Who Benefited Most from Lower Tax Rates? FOCUS ON ECONOMICS: Can a Redefined CPI Help the National Debt? 3. Visual Displays of Data 3.1 Frequency Tables USING TECHNOLOGY: Frequency Tables 3.2 Picturing Distributions of Data USING TECHNOLOGY: Bar Graphs USING TECHNOLOGY: Pie Charts USING TECHNOLOGY: Line Charts and Histograms 3.3 Graphics in the Media USING TECHNOLOGY: Graphs with Multiple Data Sets 3.4 A Few Cautions about Graphics FOCUS ON HISTORY: Can War Be Described with a Graph? FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT: Are We Changing Earth’s Atmosphere? 4. Describing Data 4.1 What Is Average? USING TECHNOLOGY: Mean, Median, and Mode 4.2 Shapes of Distributions 4.3 Measures of Variation USING TECHNOLOGY: Quartiles USING TECHNOLOGY: Boxplots USING TECHNOLOGY: Standard Deviation 4.4 Statistical Paradoxes FOCUS ON THE STOCK MARKET: What’s Average about the Dow? FOCUS ON ECONOMICS: Are the Rich Getting Richer? 5. A Normal World 5.1 What Is Normal? 5.2 Properties of the Normal Distribution USING TECHNOLOGY: Standard Scores and Percentiles 5.3 The Central Limit Theorem FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Can We Learn from SAT Trends? FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGY: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents? 6. Probability in Statistics 6.1 The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance 6.2 Basics of Probability 6.3 The Law of Large Numbers 6.4 Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy 6.5 Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section) FOCUS ON SOCIAL SCIENCE: Do Lotteries Harm the Poor? FOCUS ON LAW: Is DNA Analysis Reliable? 7. Correlation and Causality 7.1 Seeking Correlation USING TECHNOLOGY: Scatterplots and Correlation Coefficients 7.2 Interpreting Correlations 7.3 Best-Fit Lines and Prediction 7.4 The Search for Causality FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Helps Children Learn to Read? FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT: What Is Causing Global Warming? 8. Inferences from Samples to Populations 8.1 Sampling Distributions 8.2 Estimating Population Means USING TECHNOLOGY: Confidence Interval for a Population Mean 8.3 Estimating Population Proportions USING TECHNOLOGY: Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion FOCUS ON HISTORY: Where Did Statistics Begin? FOCUS ON LITERATURE: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know? 9. Hypothesis Testing 9.1 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing 9.2 Hypothesis Tests for Population Means USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Test for a Population Mean 9.3 Hypothesis Tests for Population Proportions USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Test for a Population Proportion FOCUS ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION: Will Your Education Help You Live Longer? FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe? 10. t Tests, Two-Way Tables, and ANOVA 10.1 t Distribution for Inferences about a Mean USING TECHNOLOGY: Confidence Intervals Using the t Distribution USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Tests with the t Distribution 10.2 Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables 10.3 Analysis of Variance (One-Way ANOVA) USING TECHNOLOGY: Analysis of Variance FOCUS ON CRIMINOLOGY: Can You Tell a Fraud When You See One? FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Can a Fourth-Grader Do with Statistics? Epilogue: A Perspective on Statistics Appendix A: z-Score Tables Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers Websites and Suggested Readings Glossary Credits Answers Index Table of Contents
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