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050 00 $aQA276.12$b.B59 2001
100 1 $aBluman, Allan G.
245 10 $aElementary statistics :$ba step by step approach /$cAllan G. Bluman.
250 $a4th ed.
260 $aBoston :$bMcGraw-Hill,$c2001.
300 $axxiv, 801 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c27 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aThe Nature of Probability and Statistics -- Statistics Today: Are We Improving Our Diet? -- Speaking of Statistics: The Perfect Burger -- Descriptive and Inferential Statistics -- Speaking of Statistics: Super Snack Stats -- Speaking of Statistics: Risks in the Home -- Variables and Types of Data -- Speaking of Statistics: Height Fright Not Right -- Data Collection and Sampling Techniques -- Random Sampling -- Systematic Sampling -- Speaking of Statistics: Surviving Bad Days at Work -- Stratified Sampling -- Cluster Sampling -- Speaking of Statistics: How Often Does Your Family Eat Dinner at Home Together? -- Speaking of Statistics: Shake and Wake -- Other Sampling Methods -- Observational and Experimental Studies -- Computers and Calculators -- Technology Step by Step -- Frequency Distributions and Graphs -- Statistics Today: Are We Flying More? -- Organizing Data -- Categorical Frequency Distributions -- Grouped Frequency Distributions -- Technology Step by Step -- Histograms, Frequency Polygons, and Ogives -- The Histogram -- The Frequency Polygon -- The Ogive -- Relative Frequency Graphs -- Other Types of Graphs -- Pareto Charts -- The Time Series Graph -- Speaking of Statistics: Pennsylvania Coal Production -- The Pie Graph -- Misleading Graphs -- Speaking of Statistics: Costliest Big Cities for Driving -- Speaking of Statistics: Budget Deficit Drops -- Data Description -- Statistics Today: Who Is a Typical First-Time Home Buyer? -- Measures of Central Tendency -- The Mean -- Speaking of Statistics: Big Spenders -- The Median -- The Mode -- Speaking of Statistics: Leave the Driving to... -- The Midrange -- The Weighted Mean -- Distribution Shapes -- Measures of Variation -- Range -- Variance and Standard Deviation -- The Unbiased Estimator -- Variance and Standard Deviation for Grouped Data -- Coefficient of Variation -- Chebyshev's Theorem -- The Empirical (Normal) Rule -- Measures of Postion -- Standard Scores -- Percentiles -- Quartiles and Deciles -- Outliers -- Technology Step by Step -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- Stem and Leaf Plots -- Boxplots -- Counting Techniques -- Statistics Today: Why Are We Running Out of 800 Numbers? -- Tree Diagrams and the Multiplication Rule for Counting -- The Multiplication Rule for Counting -- Permutations and Combinations -- Factorial Level Notation -- Permutations -- Combinations -- Probability -- Statistics Today: Would You Bet Your Life? -- Sample Spaces and Probability -- Classical Probability -- Complementary Events -- Empirical Probability -- Law of Large Numbers -- Subjective Probability -- Probability and Risk Taking -- The Addition Rules for Probability -- Speaking of Statistics: CEO Profile -- The Multiplication Rules and Conditional Probability -- The Multiplication Rules -- Conditional Probability -- Probabilities for "At Least" -- Probability and Counting Techniques (Optional) -- Discrete Probability Distributions -- Statistics Today: Are the Rockets Hitting the Targets? -- Probability Distributions -- Mean, Variance, and Expectation -- Mean -- Variance -- Expectation -- The Binomial Distribution -- Technology Step by Step -- Other Types of Distributions (Optional) -- The Multinomial Distribution -- The Poisson Distribution -- The Hypergeometric Distribution -- The Normal Distribution -- Statistics Today: What Is Normal? -- Properties of the Normal Distribution -- The Standard Normal Distribution -- Finding Areas under the Standard Normal Distribution Curve -- The Normal Distribution Curve as a Probability Distribution Curve -- Applications of the Normal Distribution -- Finding Data Values Given Specific Probabilities -- The Central Limit Theorem -- Distribution of Sample Means -- Finite Population Correction Factor (Optional) -- The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution -- Confidence Intervals and Sample Size -- Statistics Today: Would You Change the Channel? -- Confidence Intervals for the Mean ([sigma] Known or n [greater than or equal] 30) and Sample Size -- Confidence Intervals -- Sample Size -- Confidence Intervals for the Mean ([sigma] Unknown and n < 30) -- Technology Step by Step -- Confidence Intervals and Sample Size for Proportions -- Confidence Intervals -- Sample Size for Proportions -- Confidence Intervals for Variances and Standard Deviations -- Hypothesis Testing -- Statistics Today: How Much Better Is Better? -- Steps in Hypothesis Testing--Traditional Method -- z Test for a Mean -- Speaking of Statistics: Stick Margarine May Boost Risk of Heart Attacks -- P-Value Method for Hypothesis Testing -- Technology Step by Step -- t Test for a Mean -- z Test for a Proportion -- x[superscript 2] Test for a Variance or Standard Deviation -- Additional Topics Regarding Hypothesis Testing -- Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing -- Type II Error and the Power of a Test -- Testing the Difference between Two Means, Two Variances, and Two Proportions -- Statistics Today: To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? Small or Large? -- Testing the Difference between Two Means: Large Samples -- Technology Step by Step -- Testing the Difference between Two Variances -- Technology Step by Step -- Testing the Difference between Two Means: Small Independent Samples -- Testing the Difference between Two Means: Small Dependent Samples -- Speaking of Statistics: Public School Teachers Show Bias for Boys -- Speaking of Statistics: Pedaling a Solution for Couch-Potato Kids -- Testing the Difference between Proportions -- Hypothesis-Testing Summary 1 -- Correlation and Regression -- Statistics Today: Do Dust Storms Affect Respiratory Health? -- Scatter Plots -- Correlation -- Correlation Coefficient -- The Significance of the Correlation Coefficient -- Correlation and Causation -- Speaking of Statistics: Coffee Not Disease Culprit, Study Says -- Regression -- Line of Best Fit -- Determination of the Regression Line Equation -- Coefficient of Determination and Standard Error of Estimate -- Types of Variation for the Regression Model -- Coefficient of Determination -- Standard Error of Estimate -- Prediction Interval -- Multiple Regression (Optional) -- Speaking of Statistics: Computer Use Declines as Girls Age -- The Multiple Regression Equation -- Testing the Significance of R -- Adjusted R[superscript 2] -- Other Chi-Square Tests -- Statistics Today: Statistics and Heredity -- Test for Goodness of Fit -- Test of Normality (Optional) -- Tests Using Contingency Tables -- Test for Independence -- Test for Homogeneity of Proportions -- Speaking of Statistics: Ignoring Commercials -- Speaking of Statistics: At Least They're Checking for Radon -- Analysis of Variance -- Statistics Today: Is Seeing Really Believing? -- One-Way Analysis of Variance -- The Scheffe Test and the Tukey Test -- Scheffe Test -- Speaking of Statistics: Coffee Doesn't Increase Risk of Heart Disease -- Tukey Test -- Two-Way Analysis of Variance -- Hypothesis-Testing Summary 2 -- Nonparametric Statistics -- Statistics Today: Too Much or Too Little? -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Nonparametric Methods -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Ranking -- Speaking of Statistics: New Hampshire, Exemplary State of Health -- The Sign Test -- Single-Sample Sign Test -- Paired-Sample Sign Test -- Technology Step by Step -- The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test -- The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test -- Speaking of Statistics: Changes in Police Force Size -- Speaking of Statistics: Lacrosse by the Numbers -- Technology Step by Step -- The Kruskal-Wallis Test -- Technology Step by Step -- The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient and the Runs Test -- Rank Correlation Coefficient -- Speaking of Statistics: Stock Permits -- The Runs Test -- Speaking of Statistics: Pessimism Linked to Early Death -- Hypothesis-Testing Summary 3 -- Sampling and Simulation -- Statistics Today: No Room in the Van? -- Common Sampling Techniques -- Random Sampling -- Speaking of Statistics: Odds Stacked against Lefties -- Systematic Sampling -- Stratified Sampling -- Cluster Sampling -- Other Types of Sampling Techniques -- Speaking of Statistics: Help, I've Failed and I Can't Get Up -- Surveys and Questionnaire Design -- Simulation Techniques -- The Monte Carlo Method -- Algebra Review -- Writing the Research Report -- Bayes's Theorem -- Data Bank.
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