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Table of Contents
From the Book - Second edition
Vital statistics about statistics
Number-crunching basics
Distributions and the central limit theorem
Guesstimating and hypothesizing with confidence
Statistical studies and the hunt for a meaningful relationship
The part of tens
Appendix: Tables for reference.
Introduction
pt. I. Vital statistics about statistics. 1. Statistics in a nutshell
2. The statistics of everyday life
3. Taking control : so many numbers, so little time
4. Tools of the trade
pt. II. Number-crunching basics. 5. Means, medians, and more
6. Getting the picture : graphing categorical data
7. Going by the numbers : graphing numerical data
pt. III. Distributions and the central limit theorem
8. Random variables and the binomial distribution
9. The normal distribution
10. The t-Distribution
11. Sampling distributions and the central limit theorem
pt. IV. Guesstimating and hypothesizing with confidence. 12. Leaving room for a margin of error
13. confidence intervals : making your best guesstimate
14. Claims, tests, and conclusions
15. Commonly used hypothesis tests : formulas and examples
pt. V. Statistical studies and the hunt for a meaningful relationship. 16. Polls, polls, and more polls
17. Experiments : medical breakthroughs or misleading results?
18. Looking for links : correlation and regression
19. Two-way tables and independence
pt. VI. The part of tens. 20. Ten tips for the statistically savvy sleuth
21. Ten surefire exam score boosters
Appendix : tables for reference
Index.