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Statistical reasoning for everyday life / Jeffrey O. Bennett, William L. Briggs, Mario F. Triola

Author
Bennett, Jeffrey O.
Published
Boston : Pearson Education, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Description
1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Additional Creators
Briggs, William L. and Triola, Mario F.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Speaking of Statistics -- 1.1.What Is/Are Statistics? -- 1.2.Sampling -- 1.3.Types of Statistical Studies -- 1.4.Should You Believe a Statistical Study? -- Focus On Psychology: Are You Driving "Drunk" On Your Cell Phone? -- Focus On Public Health: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy? -- 2.Measurement in Statistics -- 2.1.Data Types and Levels of Measurement -- 2.2.Dealing with Errors -- 2.3.Uses of Percentages in Statistics -- 2.4.Index Numbers -- Usingtechnology: Inflation Calculator -- Focus On Politics: Who Benefited Most From Lower Tax Rates? -- Focus On Economics: Can A Redefined Cpi Help Solve The Budget Crisis? -- 3.Visual Displays of Data -- 3.1.Frequency Tables -- Usingtechnology: Frequency Tables -- 3.2.Picturing Distributions of Data -- Using Technology: Bar Graphs -- Using Technology: Pie Charts -- Usingtechnology: Line Charts And Histograms -- 3.3.Graphics in the Media -- Usingtechnology: Graphs With Multiple Data Sets -- 3.4.A Few Cautions About Graphics -- Focus On History: Can War Be Described With A Graph? -- Focus On Environment: Are We Changing Earth's Atmosphere? -- 4.Describing Data -- 4.1.What Is Average? -- Usingtechnology: Mean, Median, And Mode -- 4.2.Shapes of Distributions -- 4.3.Measures of Variation -- Usingtechnology: Boxplots -- Usingtechnology: Standard Deviation -- 4.4.Statistical Paradoxes -- Focus On The Stock Market: What's Average About The Dow? -- Focus On Economics: Are The Rich Getting Richer? -- 5.A Normal World -- 5.1.What Is Normal? -- 5.2.Properties of the Normal Distribution -- Usingtechnology: Standard Scores In Excel -- Usingtechnology: Standard Scores And Percentiles -- 5.3.The Central Limit Theorem -- Focus On Education: What Can We Learn From Sat Trends? -- Focus On Psychology: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents? -- 6.Probability in Statistics -- 6.1.The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance -- 6.2.Basics of Probability -- 6.3.The Law of Large Numbers -- 6.4.Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy -- 6.5.Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section) -- Focus On Social Science: Do Lotteries Harm The Poor? -- Focus On Law: Is Dna Fingerprinting Reliable? -- 7.Correlation and Causality -- 7.1.Seeking Correlation -- Usingtechnology: Scatterplots And Correlation Coefficients -- 7.2.Interpreting Correlations -- 7.3.Best-Fit Lines and Prediction -- 7.4.The Search for Causality -- Focus On Education: What Helps Children Learn To Read? -- Focus On Environment: What Is Causing Global Warming? -- 8.From Samples to Populations -- 8.1.Sampling Distributions -- 8.2.Estimating Population Means -- Using Technology: Confidence Interval Estimate Of A Population Mean -- 8.3.Estimating Population Proportions -- Using Technology: Confidence Interval Estimate Of A Population Proportion -- Focus On History: Where Did Statistics Begin? -- Focus On Literature: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know? -- 9.Hypothesis Testing -- 9.1.Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing -- 9.2.Hypothesis Tests for Population Means -- Using Technology: Hypothesis Test Fora Population Mean -- 9.3.Hypothesis Tests for Population Proportions -- Using Technology: Hypothesis Test Fora Population Proportion -- Focus On Health And Education: Will Your Education Help You Live Longer? -- Focus On Agriculture: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe? -- 10.tTests, Two-Way Tables, and ANOVA -- 10.1.t Distribution for Inferences about a Mean -- Using Technology: The t Distribution -- 10.2.Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables -- Using Technology: Hypothesis Testing With Two-Way Tables -- 10.3.Analysis of Variance (One-Way Anova) -- Usingtechnology: Analysis Of Variance -- Focus On Criminology: Can You Tell A Fraud When You See One? -- Focus On Education: What Can A Fourth-Grader Do With Statistics?.
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ISBN
9780321817624
0321817621
Note
Includes index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the 2012;
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment
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