Statistics: Concepts and Controversies

PART ONE: PRODUCING DATA - Where Does Data Come From? - Samples, Good and Bad - What Do Samples Tell Us? - Sample Surveys in the Real World - Experiments, Good and Bad - Experiments in the Real World - Data Ethics - Measuring - Do the Numbers Make Sense? - Review I: Producing Data - PART TWO: ORGANIZING DATA - Graphs Good and Bad - Displaying Distributions with Graphs - Describing Distributions with Numbers - Normal Distributions - Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation - Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation - The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics - Review II: Organizing Data - PART THREE: CHANCE - Thinking about Chance - Probability Models - Simulation - The House Edge: Expected Values - Review III: Chance - PART FOUR: INFERENCE - What is a Confidence Interval? - What is a Test of Significance? - Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference - Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test - Inference About a Population Means - PART FOUR: Review