Synopses & Reviews
For the non-majors service course in Introductory Statistics, the text uses brevity, step-by-step presentation of examples with realistic statistical applications and student exercises with data from contemporary events to make the subject approachable to students without strong backgrounds in mathematics.
Table of Contents
Organizing Data.
Numerical Descriptive Measures.
Probability.
Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions.
Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution.
Sampling Distributions.
Estimation of the Mean and Proportion.
Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion.
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations.
Chi-Square Tests.
Simple Linear Regression.
Analysis of Variance.
Appendices.
Answers to Exercises.
Index.