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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data
- 1.1: How Can You Investigate Using Data? (4)
- 1.2: We Learn about Populations Using Samples (4)
- 1.3: What Role do Computers Play in Statistics? (2)
- 1: Chapter Problems (2)
- Chapter 2: Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries
- 2.1: What Are the Types of Data? (5)
- 2.2: How Can We Describe Data Using Graphical Summaries? (7)
- 2.3: How Can We Describe the Center of Quantitative Data? (7)
- 2.4: How Can We Describe the Spread of Quantitative Data? (6)
- 2.5: How Can Measures of Position Describe Spread? (8)
- 2.6: How Are Descriptive Summaries Misused? (2)
- 2: Chapter Problems (10)
- Chapter 3: Association: Contingency, Correlation, and Regression
- 3.1: How Can We Explore the Association between Two Categorical Variables? (5)
- 3.2: How Can We Explore the Association between Two Quantitative Variables? (6)
- 3.3: How Can We Predict the Outcome of a Variable? (5)
- 3.4: What are Some Cautions in Analyzing Associations? (6)
- 3: Chapter Problems (10)
- Chapter 4: Gathering Data
- 4.1: Should We Experiment of Should We Merely Observe? (5)
- 4.2: What Are Good Ways and Poor Ways to Sample? (6)
- 4.3: What Are Good Ways and Poor Ways to Experiment? (3)
- 4.4: What Are Other Ways to Perform Experimental and Observational Studies? (4)
- 4: Chapter Problems (11)
- Chapter 5: Probability in Our Daily Lives
- 5.1: How Can Probability Quantify Randomness? (3)
- 5.2: How Can We Find Probabilities? (6)
- 5.3: Conditional Probability: What's the Probability of A, Given B? (9)
- 5.4: Applying the Probability Rules (8)
- 5: Chapter Problems (6)
- Chapter 6: Probability Distributions
- 6.1: How Can We Summarize Possible Outcomes and Their Probabilities? (5)
- 6.2: How Can We Find Probabilites for Bell-Shaped Distributions? (8)
- 6: How Can We Find Probabilities When Each Observation Has Two Possible Outcomes? (6)
- 6.4: How Likely Are the possible Values of a Statistic? The Sampling Distribution (5)
- 6.5: How Close Are Sample Means to Population Means? (3)
- 6.6: How Can We Make Inferences About a Population? (2)
- 6: Chapter Problems (9)
- Chapter 7: Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals
- 7.1: What Are Point and Interval Estimates of Population Parameters? (4)
- 7.2: how Can We Construct a Confidence Interval to Estimate a Population Proportion? (5)
- 7.3: How Can We Construct a Confidence Interval to Estimate a Population Mean? (6)
- 7.4: How Do We Choose the Sample Size for a Study? (5)
- 7.5: How Do computers Make New Estimation Methods Possible? (1)
- 7: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 8: Statistical Inference: Significance Tests About Hypotheses
- 8.1: What Are the Steps for Performing a Signigicance Test? (2)
- 8.2: Significance Tests About Proportions (4)
- 8.3: Significance Tests About Means (2)
- 8.4: Decisions and Types of Errors in Significance Tests (2)
- 8.5: Limitations of Significance Tests (2)
- 8.6: How Likely Is a Type II Error (Not Rejecting Ho, Even though it's False)? (1)
- 8: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 9: Comparing Two Groups
- 9.1: Categorical Response: How Can We Compare Two Proportions? (6)
- 9.2: Quantitative Response: How Can We Compare Two Means? (6)
- 9.3: Other Ways of Comparing Means and Comparing Proportions (5)
- 9.4: How Can We Analyze Dependent Samples? (2)
- 9.5: How Can We Adjust for Effects of Other Variables? (2)
- 9: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 10: Analyzing the Association Between Categorical Variables
- 10.1: What Is Independence and What Is Association?
- 10.2: How Can We Test Whether Categorical Variables are Independent?
- 10.3: How Strong Is the Association?
- 10.4: How Can Residuals Reveal the Pattern of Association?
- 10.5; What is the Sample Size is Small? Fisher's Exact Test
- 10: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 11: Analyzing Association Between Quantitative Variables: Regression Analysis
- 11.1: How Can We "Model" How Two Variables Are Related?
- 11.2: How Can We Describe Strength of Association?
- 11.3: How Can We Make Inferences About the Association?
- 11.4: What Do We Learn from How the Data Vary Around the Regression Line?
- 11.5: Exponential Regression: A Model for Nonlinearity
- 11: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 12: Multiple Regression
- 12.1: How Can We Use Several Variables to Predict a Response?
- 12.2: Extending the Correlation and R-Squared for Multiple Regression
- 12.3: How Can We use multiple Regression to Make Inferences?
- 12.4: Checking a Regression Model Using Residual Plots
- 12.5: How Can Regression Include Categorical Predictors?
- 12.6: How Can We Model a Categorical Response?
- 12: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 13: Comparing Groups: Analysis of Variance Methods
- 13.1: How Can We Compare Several Means? One-Way ANOVA
- 13.2: How Should We Follow Up and ANOVA F Test?
- 13.3: What if There Are Two Factors? Two Way ANOVA
- 13: Chapter Problems
- Chapter 14:Nonparametric Statistics
- 14.1: How Can We Compare Two Groups by Ranking?
- 14.2: Nonparametric Methods for Several Groups and for Matched Pairs
- 14: Chapter Problems
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