Understanding Basic Statistics - 4th edition

1. Getting Started

Focus Problem: Where Have all the Fireflies Gone?
1.1 What Is Statistics?
1.2 Random Samples
1.3 Introduction to Experimental Design

2. Organizing Data

Focus Problem: Say it with Pictures
2.1 Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Related Topics
2.2 Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time-Series Graphs
2.3 Stem-and-Leaf Displays

3. Averages and Variation

Focus Problem: The Educational Advantage
3.1 Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean
3.2 Measures of Variation
3.3 Percentiles and Box-and Whisker Plots
Cumulative Review: Ch. 1-3

4. Correlation and Regression

Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate
4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Linear Correlation
4.2 Linear Regression and the Coefficient of Determination

5. Elementary Probability Theory

Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie?
5.1 What is Probability?
5.2 Some Probability Rules-Compound Events
5.3 Trees and Counting Techniques

6. The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics

Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert of Extrovert?
6.1 Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions
6.2 Binomial Probabilities
6.3 Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution
Cumulative Review: Ch. 4-6

7. Normal Curves and Sampling Distributions

Focus Problem: Impulse Buying
7.1 Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions
7.2 Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution
7.3 Areas Under Any Normal Curve
7.4 Sampling Distributions
7.5 The Central Limit Theorem
7.6 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution

8. Estimation

Focus Problem: Trick or Treat
8.1 Estimating ? When ? is Known
8.2 Estimating ? When ? is Unknown
8.3 Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution

9. Hypothesis Testing

Focus Problem: Benford's Law: The Importance of Being No.1
9.1 Introduction to Statistical Tests
9.2 Testing the Mean of ?
9.3 Testing a Proportion p

10. Inferences About Differences

Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks
10.1 Test Involving Paired Differences (Dependent Samples)
10.2 Inferences About Differences of Two Means ?1-?2
10.3 Inferences About the Difference of Proportions p1-p2

11. Additional Topics Using Inference

Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeology
Part I: Hypothesis Tests Using the Chi-Square Distribution
Overview of Chi-Square Distribution
11.1 Chi-Square: Tests of Independence
11.2 Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit
11.3 Testing a Single Variance or Standard Deviation
Part II: Inferences Relating to Linear Regression
11.4 Inferences for Correlation and Regression
Cumulative Review Problems: Ch.10-11