Elementary Statistics: From Discovery to Decision

Introduction: The Role of Statistics in Life. Chapter 1. The Language of Statistics. Chapter 2. Graphical Displays of Data. Chapter 3. Numerical Descriptors of Data. Chapter 4. Analyzing Bivariate Data. Chapter 5. Probability. Chapter 6. Random Variables and Probability Distributions. Chapter 7. Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals. Chapter 8. Hypothesis Testing: An Introduction. Chapter 9. Inferences: More One Population Tests. Chapter 10. Comparing Two Populations. Chapter 11. Regression Analysis. Chapter 12. Multiple Regression Models. Chapter 13. Experimental Design and ANOVA. Chapter 14. The Analysis of Qualitative Data. Chapter 15. Nonparametric Statistics. Chapter 16. Making Your Case. Appendix A. Statistical Tables. Appendix B. Explanation of Large Data Sets. Appendix C. Conditional Probability and Bayes Rule. Appendix D. The Poisson Probability Distribution. Appendix E. Exercises Appendix. Index.