Statistics
Subtitle: informed decisions using data
By: Michael Sullivan, III
Edition: Custom edition for Rochester Institute of Technology
Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781256715917
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Statistics; Textbooks
Notes: Includes indexes.

"Taken from Statistics: Informed decisions using data, Fourth edition, by Michael Sullivan, III."
Table of contents: title: Volume 1 contents: pt. 1. Getting the information you need; title: ch. 1. Data collection; title: Introduction to the practice of statistics; title: Observational studies versus designed experiments; title: Simple random sampling; title: Other effective sampling methods; title: Bias in sampling; title: The design of experiments; title: pt. 2. Descriptive statistics; title: ch. 2. Organizing and summarizing data; title: Organizing qualitative data; title: Organizing quantitative data : the popular displays; title: Additional displays of quantitative data; title: Graphical misrepresentations of data; title: ch. 3. Numerically summarizing data; title: Measures of central tendency; title: Measures of dispersion; title: Measures of central tendency and dispersion from grouped data; title: Measures of position and outliers; title: The five-number summary and boxplots; title: ch. 4. Describing the relation between two variables; title: Scatter diagrams and correlation; title: Least-squares regression; title: Diagnostics on the least-squares regression line; title: Contingency tables and association; title: Nonlinear regression : transformations (on CD); title: pt. 3. Probability and probability distributions; title: ch. 5. Probability; title: Probability rules; title: The addition rule and complements; title: Independence and the multiplication rule; title: Conditional probability and the general multiplication rule; title: Counting techniques; title: Putting it together: which method do I use?; title: Baye's rule (on CD); title: ch. 6. Discrete probability distributions; title: Discrete random variables; title: The binomial probability distribution; title: The Poisson probability distribution; title: The hypergeometric probability distribution (on CD); title: ch. 7. The normal probability distribution; title: Properties of the normal distribution; title: Applications of the normal distribution; title: Assessing normality; title: The normal approximation to the binomial probability distribution; title: pt. 4. Inference : from samples to population; title: ch. 8. Sampling distributions; title: Distribution of the sample mean; title: Distribution of the sample proportion; title: ch. 9. Estimating the value of a parameter; title: Estimating a population proportion; title: Estimating a population mean; title: Estimating a population standard deviation; title: Putting it together: which procedure do I use?; title: Estimating with bootstrapping; title: ch. 10. Hypothesis tests regarding a parameter; title: The language of hypothesis testing; title: Hypothesis tests for a population proportion; title: Hypothesis tests for a population mean; title: Hypothesis tests for a population standard deviation; title: The probability of a Type II error and the power of the test.