xxiv, 872 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents
1. What Is Statistics? -- 2. Summarizing Data - Frequency Distributions and Graphic Presentation -- 3. Describing Data - Measures of Central Tendency -- 4. Measures of Dispersion and Skewness -- 5. A Survey of Probability Concepts -- 6. Discrete Probability Distributions -- 7. The Normal Probability Distribution -- 8. Sampling Methods and Sampling Distributions -- 9. Tests of Hypotheses: Large Samples -- 10. Tests of Hypotheses: Proportions -- 11. Student's t Test: Small Samples -- 12. Analysis of Variance -- 13. Simple Correlation Analysis -- 14. Simple Regression Analysis -- 15. Multiple Regression and Correlation -- 16. Analysis of Nominal-Level Data: The Chi-Square Distribution -- 17. Nonparametric Methods: Analysis of Ranked Data -- 18. Index Numbers -- 19. Time Series and Forecasting -- 20. An Introduction to Decision Making under Uncertainty -- 21. Statistical Quality Control -- Appendixes: Tables and Data Sets
