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Drawing upon his passion for statistics and teaching, Mike Sullivan addresses the needs of today’s students, the challenges teachers face, and changes in the statistics community.  With feedback from his own students and classroom experience, Fundamentals of Statistics provides the tools to help students learn better and think statistically in a concise, friendly presentation.   The CD conatins all the student supplement content ,  the data sets, graphing calculator manual, excel manual, a PDF of the Formula and Table card from the back of the book, and a guide to using statcrunch with the title.   Note: This is just the standalone book and CD, it does not come with an Access Card. If an Access Card is required ask your instructor for the ISBN of the package which would include the Book & CD plus the Access Card..

Table of Contents:
Part 1: Getting the Information You Need   1. Data Collection 1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 1.2 Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments 1.3 Simple Random Sampling 1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods 1.5 Bias in Sampling 1.6 The Design of Experiments    Chapter 1 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend?    Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash   Part 2: Descriptive Statistics   2. Organizing and Summarizing Data 2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data 2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data: The Popular Displays 2.3 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data    Chapter 2 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs?    Case Study: The Day the Sky Roared   3. Numerically Summarizing Data 3.1 Measures of Central Tendency 3.2 Measures of Dispersion 3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data 3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers 3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots    Chapter 3 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?    Case Study: Who Was A Mourner?   4. Describing the Relation between Two Variables 4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation 4.2 Least-Squares Regression 4.3 The Coefficient of Determination 4.4 Contingency Tables and Association    Chapter 4 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Relationships among Variables on a World Scale    Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence   Part 3: Probability and Probability Distributions   5. Probability 5.1 Probability Rules 5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements 5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule 5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule 5.5 Counting Techniques 5.6 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?    Chapter 5 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: The Effects of Drinking and Driving    Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag   6. Discrete Probability Distributions 6.1 Discrete Random Variables 6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution    Chapter 6 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?    Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew   7. The Normal Probability Distribution 7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution 7.2 Applications of the Normal Distribution 7.3 Assessing Normality 7.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution    Chapter 7 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking    Case Study: A Tale of Blood Chemistry and Health   Part 4: Inference: From Samples to Population   8. Sampling Distributions 8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean 8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion    Chapter 8 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day...?    Case Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median   9. Estimating the Value of a Parameter 9.1 Estimating a Population Proportion 9.2 Estimating a Population Mean 9.3 Putting It Together: Which Procedure Do I Use?    Chapter 9 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: How Much Should I Spend for This House?    Case Study: Fire-Safe Cigarettes   10. Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter 10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing 10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion 10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean 10.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?    Chapter 10 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Selecting a Mutual Fund    Case Study: How Old Is Stonehenge?   11. Inferences on Two Samples 11.1 Inference about Two Population Proportions 11.2 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples 11.3 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples 11.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?    Chapter 11 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Which Car Should I Buy?    Case Study: Control in the Design of an Experiment   12. Inference on Categorical Data 12.1 Goodness-of-Fit Test 12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions 12.3 Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model 12.4 Confidence and Prediction Intervals    Chapter 12 Review    Chapter Test    Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College    Case Study: Feeling Lucky? Well, Are You?   Additional Topics on CD C.1 Lines C.2 Estimating a Population Standard Deviation C.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Standard Deviation C.4 Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance)   Appendix A. Tables Photo Credits Answers Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321838704
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 276 mm
  • No of Pages: 688
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 1383 gr
  • ISBN-10: 032183870X
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2013
  • Binding: SA
  • Edition: 4 PAP/CDR/
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: United States Edition
  • Width: 216 mm


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