Chance Encounters A First Course In Data Analysis And Inference

Text combines lucid and statistically engaging exposition, graphic and poignantly applied examples, realistic exercise settings to take student past the mechanics of introductory-level statistical techniques into the realm of practical data analysis and inference-based problem solving.

Contents:

1. What is Statistics?
2. Tools for Exploring Univariate Data
3. Exploratory Tools for Relationships
4. Probabilities and Proportions
5. Discrete Random Variables
6. Continuous Random Variables
7. Sampling Distributions of Estimates
8. Confidence Intervals
9. Significance Testing: Using Data to Test Hypotheses
10. Data on a Continuous Variable
11. Tables of Counts
12. Relationships Between Quantitative Variables: Regression and Correlation
13. Control Charts (See Wiley Web Site)
14. Time Series (See Wiley Web Site)
    Appendices
    References
    Answers to Selected Exercises
    Index
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