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The practice of statistics : TI-83/84/89 graphing calculator enhanced
Title:
The practice of statistics : TI-83/84/89 graphing calculator enhanced
Author:
Yates, Daniel S.
ISBN:
9780716773092
Personal Author:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
New York : W.H. Freeman, c2008.
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 27 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
PART I. ANALYZING DATA: LOOKING FOR PATTERNS AND DEPARTURES FROM PATTERNS -- 1. Exploring Data -- 1.1 Displaying Distributions with Graphs -- 1.2 Describing Distributions with Numbers -- 2. Describing Location in Distribution -- 2.1 Measures of Relative Standing and Density Curves -- 2.2 Normal Distributions -- 3. Examining Relationships -- 3.1 Scatterplots and Correlation -- 3.2 Least-Squares Regression -- 3.3 Correlation and Regression Wisdom -- 4. More about Relationships between Two Variables -- 4.1 Transforming to Achieve Linearity -- 4.2 Relationships between Categorical variables -- 4.3 Establishing Causation -- PART II. PRODUCING DATA: SURVEYS, OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES, AND EXPERIMENTS -- 5. Producing Data -- 5.1 Designing Samples -- 5.2 Designing Experiments -- PART III PROBABILITY AND RANDOM VARIABLES: FOUNDATIONS OF INFERENCE -- 6. Probability and Simulation: The Study of Randomness -- 6.1 Simulation -- 6.2 Probability Models -- 6.3 General Probability Rules -- 7. Random Variables -- 7.1 Discrete and Continuous Random Variables -- 7.2 Means and Variances of Random Variables -- 8. The Binomial and Geometric Distributions -- 8.1 The Binomial Distributions -- 8.2 The Geometric Distributions -- 9. Sampling Distributions -- 9.1 Sampling Distributions -- 9.2 Sample Proportions -- 9.3 Sample Means -- PART IV. INFERENCE: CONCLUSIONS WITH CONFIDENCE -- 10. Estimating with Confidence -- 10.1 Confidence Intervals: The Basics -- 10.2 Estimating a Population Mean -- 10.3 Estimating a Population Proportion -- 11. Testing a Claim -- 11.1 Significance Tests: The Basics -- 11.2 Carrying Out Significance Tests -- 11.3 Use and Abuse of Tests -- 11.4 Using Inference to Make Decisions -- 12. Significance Tests in Practice -- 12.1 Tests about a Population Mean -- 12.2 Tests about a Population Proportion -- 13. Comparing Two Population Parameters -- 13.1 Comparing Two Means -- 13.2 Comparing Two Proportions -- 14. Inference for Distributions of Categorical Variables: Chi-Square Procedures -- 14.1 Test for Goodness of Fit -- 14.2 Inference for Two-Way Tables -- 15. Inference for Regression.
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