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Introductory Statistics, Third Edition, presents statistical concepts and techniques in a manner that will teach students not only how and when to utilize the statistical procedure… Read more
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Introductory Statistics, Third Edition, presents statistical concepts and techniques in a manner that will teach students not only how and when to utilize the statistical procedures developed, but also to understand why these procedures should be used. This book offers a unique historical perspective, profiling prominent statisticians and historical events in order to motivate learning.
To help guide students towards independent learning, exercises and examples using real issues and real data (e.g., stock price models, health issues, gender issues, sports, scientific fraud) are provided. The chapters end with detailed reviews of important concepts and formulas, key terms, and definitions that are useful study tools. Data sets from text and exercise material are available for download in the text website.
This text is designed for introductory non-calculus based statistics courses that are offered by mathematics and/or statistics departments to undergraduate students taking a semester course in basic Statistics or a year course in Probability and Statistics.
Preface
Introduction to Statistics
Describing Data Sets Using Statistics to Summarize
Data Sets Probability
Discrete Random Variables
Normal Random Variables
Distributions of Sampling
Statistics Estimation Testing
Statistical Hypotheses
Hypothesis Tests Concerning Two Populations
Analysis of Variance Linear Regression
Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Tests
Nonparametric Hypotheses
Tests
Quality Control
Appendices
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