Understanding basic statistics : concepts and methods / Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1997.Description: xviii, 576, 60 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0669418560 (exam copy)
  • 0669398128 (student text)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 22 BRA
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Contents
1. Organizing data
Populations, Samples and data
Random samples
Graphs
Histograms and frequency distributions
Stem-and-Leaf displays

2. Averages and Variation
Measures of central Tendency: Mode, Median and mean
Measures of variation
Percentiles and box-and whisker plots

3. Regression and correlation
Introduction to paired data and scatter diagrams
Linear regression
The Linear correlation Coefficient

4. Elementary Probability Theory
What is probability
Some probability rules- Compound Events
Trees and counting techniques

The binomial probability distribution
Introduction to random variables and probability Distributions
Binomial probabilities
The mean and standard deviation of the binomial distributions

6. Normal Distributions
Graphs of Nomal probability distribution
Standard units and Area under the standard normal distribution
Area under any normal curve
Normal approximation to the binomial distribution

7. Introduction to Sampling distributions
Sampling distribution
The central limit theorem
Class project illustrating the central limit theorem

8. Introduction to Estimation
Estimating u with large sample
Estimating u with small sample
Estimating p in binomial distribution
Choosing the sample size

9. Hypothesis testing involving one population
Introduction to Hypothesis testing
Tests involved the mean u (Large samples)
The p value in Hypothesis testing
Tests involved the mean u (small samples)
Tests involves a proportion

10. Inferences about differences
Tests involving pared differences (Dependent samples)
Inference about the difference of two means(Large independent Samples)
Inferences about the difference of two proportions

11. Additional topics using inference
Part I: Hypothesis tests using the Chi-Square distribution
Chi-square: Tests of independence
Chi-square: Goodness of fit
Testing the Variance
Part II: Inferences relating to linear regression
Linear regression: Confidence intervals for predictions
Testing the correlation coefficient

Includes index.

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