Fundamentals of Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, 6e

Cover 1 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Preface to the Instructor 13 Acknowledgments 16 Resources for Success 19 Applications Index 21 Part 1 Getting the Information You Need 27 1 Data Collection 28 1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 29 1.2 Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments 40 1.3 Simple Random Sampling 49 1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods 56 1.5 Bias in Sampling 64 1.6 The Design of Experiments 70 Chapter 1 Review 81 Chapter Test 85 Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend? 86 Part 2 Descriptive Statistics 87 2 Summarizing Data in Tables and Graphs 88 2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data 89 2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data 102 2.3 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data 118 Chapter 2 Review 126 Chapter Test 130 Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs? 132 3 Numerically Summarizing Data 133 3.1 Measures of Central Tendency 134 3.2 Measures of Dispersion 147 3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data 165 3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers 171 3.5 The Five‐Number Summary and Boxplots 181 Chapter 3 Review 190 Chapter Test 193 Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy? 195 4 Describing the Relation between Two Variables 196 4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation 197 4.2 Least‐Squares Regression 213 4.3 The Coefficient of Determination 227 4.4 Contingency Tables and Association 232 Chapter 4 Review 243 Chapter Test 248 Making an Informed Decision: Relationships among Variables on a World Scale 250 Part 3 Probability and Probability Distributions 251 5 Probability 252 5.1 Probability Rules 253 5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements 268 5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule 279 5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule 286 5.5 Counting Techniques 295 5.6 Simulating Probability Experiments 308 5.7 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 313 Chapter 5 Review 319 Chapter Test 323 Making an Informed Decision: The Effects of Drinking and Driving 324 6 Discrete Probability Distributions 325 6.1 Discrete Random Variables 326 6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution 338 Chapter 6 Review 353 Chapter Test 356 Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict? 357 7 The Normal Probability Distribution 358 7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution 359 7.2 Applications of the Normal Distribution 369 7.3 Assessing Normality 381 7.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution 386 Chapter 7 Review 391 Chapter Test 393 Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking 394 Part 4 Inference: From Samples to Population 395 8 Sampling Distributions 396 8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean 397 8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion 410 Chapter 8 Review 418 Chapter Test 419 Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day . . . ? 420 9 Estimating the Value of a Parameter 421 9.1 Estimating a Population Proportion 422 9.2 Estimating a Population Mean 436 9.3 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 451 Chapter 9 Review 455 Chapter Test 458 Making an Informed Decision: How Much Should I Spend for this House? 459 10 Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter 460 10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing 461 10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion 469 10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean 484 10.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 496 Chapter 10 Review 498 Chapter Test 501 Making an Informed Decision: Selecting a Mutual Fund 502 11 Inference on Two Population Parameters 503 11.1 Inference about Two Population Proportions 504 11.2 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples 516 11.3 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples 527 11.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 539 Chapter 11 Review 543 Chapter Test 546 Making an Informed Decision: Which Car Should I Buy? 548 12 Additional Inferential Methods 549 12.1 Goodness‐of‐Fit Test 550 12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions 564 12.3 Testing the Significance of the Least‐Squares Regression Model 580 12.4 Confidence and Prediction Intervals 595 Chapter 12 Review 601 Chapter Test 605 Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College 607 Credits 609 Appendix A Tables 617 Answers 639 Subject Index 713 A 713 B 713 C 713 D 715 E 716 F 717 G 717 H 717 I 718 J 718 K 718 L 718 M 719 N 720 O 720 P 721 Q 722 R 722 S 723 T 725 U 726 V 726 W 726 X 726 Y 726 Z 726 "Popular college introductory text to the subject of Statistics that follows GAISE guidelines"-- Provided by publisher