Supplements: Instructor's Manual｜Test Bank｜Power point｜Solutions Manual
Author
David Freedman, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Pisani, Boulder, Colorado
Roger Purves, University of California, Berkeley
Description
Statistics teaches students how to think about statistical issues. It is written in clear, everyday language, without the equations that baffle non-mathematical readers. The techniques are all introduced through examples, showing how statistics has helped solve major problems in economics, education, genetics, medicine, physics, political science, psychology, and other fields. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Table of Contents
PART1. DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
Ch 1. Controlled Experiments
Ch 2. Observational Studies
PRAT2. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Ch 3. The Histogram
Ch 4. The Average and the Standard Deviation
Ch 5. The Normal Approximation for Data
Ch 6. Measurement Error
Ch 7. Plotting Points and Lines
PART3. CORRELATION AND REGRESSION
Ch 8. Correlation
Ch 9. More about Correlation
Ch 10. Regression
Ch 11. The R.M.S. Error for Regression
Ch 12. The Regression Line
PART4. PROBABILITY
Ch 13. What Are the Chances?
Ch 14. More about Chance
Ch 15. The Binomial Formula
PART 5. CHANCE VARIABILITY
Ch 16. The Law of Averages
Ch 17. The Expected Value and Standard Error
Ch 18. The Normal Approximation for Probability Histograms
PART6. SAMPLING
Ch 19. Sample Surveys
Ch 20. Chance Errors in Sampling
Ch 21. The Accuracy of Percentages
Ch 22. Measuring Employment and Unemployment
Ch 23. The Accuracy of Averages
PART7. CHANCE MODELS
Ch 24. A Model for Measurement Error
Ch 25. Chance Models in Genetics
PART8. TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Ch 26. Tests of Significance
Ch 27. More Tests for Averages
Ch 28. The Chi-Square Test
Ch 29. A Closer Look at Tests of Significance
