Loose Leaf Elementary Statistics: A Step By Step Approach

Overview

Main description

ELEMENTARY STATISTICS: A STEP BY STEP APPROACH is for general beginning statistics courses with a basic algebra prerequisite. The book is non-theoretical, explaining concepts intuitively and teaching problem solving through worked examples and step-by-step instructions. This edition places more emphasis on conceptual understanding and understanding results. This edition also features increased emphasis on Excel, MINITAB, and the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators; computing technologies commonly used in such courses.

Table of contents

1 The Nature of Probability and Statistics2 Frequency Distributions and Graphs3 Data Description4 Probability and Counting Rules5 Discrete Probability Distributions6 The Normal Distribution7 Confidence Intervals and Sample Size8 Hypothesis Testing9 Testing the Difference Between Two Means, Two Variances, and Two Proportions10 Correlation and Regression11 Other Chi-Square Tests12 Analysis of Variance13 Nonparametric Statistics14 Sampling and SimulationAppendix A: Algebra ReviewAppendix B-1: Writing the Research ReportAppendix B-2: Bayes’ TheoremAppendix B-3: Alternate Approach to the Standard Normal DistributionAppendix C: TablesAppendix D: Data BankAppendix E: GlossaryAppendix F: BibliographyAppendix G: Photo CreditsAppendix H: Selected Answers