Solutions Manual to accompany Fundamentals of Statistics 3rd edition 0321641876
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- ISBN-10 : 0321641876
- ISBN-13 : 978-0321641878
- Author: Mike Sullivan, III
PART I. GETTING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED
1. Data Collection
1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
1.2 Observational Studies and Experiments
1.3 Simple Random Sampling
1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods
1.5 Bias in Sampling
1.6 The Design of Experiments
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What Movie Should I Go To?
Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash (On CD)
PART II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
2. Creating Tables and Drawing Pictures of Data
2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data
2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data
2.3 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs?
Case Study: The Day the Sky Roared (On CD)
3. Numerically Summarizing Data
3.1 Measures of Central Tendency
3.2 Measures of Dispersion
3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data
3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers
3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?
Case Study: Who Was “A Mourner”? (On CD)
4. Describing the Relation Between Two Variables
4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation
4.2 Least-Squares Regression
4.3 The Coefficient of Determination
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy? Part II
Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence (On CD)
PART III: PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
5. Probability
5.1 Probability Rules
5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements
5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule
5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule
5.5 Counting Techniques
5.6 Putting It Together: Probability
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Sports Probabilities
Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag (On CD)
6. Discrete Probability Distributions
6.1 Discrete Random Variables
6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?
Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew (On CD)
7. The Normal Probability Distribution
7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution
7.2 The Standard Normal Distribution
7.3 Applications of the Normal Distribution
7.4 Assessing Normality
7.5 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Join the Club
Case Study: A Tale of Blood, Chemistry, and Health (on CD)
PART IV: INFERENCE–FROM SAMPLES TO POPULATION
8. Sampling Distributions
8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean
8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day&?
Case Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median (On CD)
9. Estimating the Value of a Parameter Using Confidence Intervals
9.1 The Logic in Constructing Confidence Intervals about a Population Mean Where the Population Standard Deviation is Known
9.2 Confidence Intervals about a Population Mean Where the Population Standard Deviation is Unknown
9.3 Confidence Intervals about a Population Proportion
9.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What’s Your Major?
Case Study: When Model Requirements Fail (On CD)
10. Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter
10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing
10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean–Population Standard Deviation is Known
10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean–Population Standard Deviation is Unknown
10.4 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion
10.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: What Does It Really Weigh?
Case Study: How Old Is Stonehenge? (On CD)
11. Inference on Two Samples
11.1 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples
11.2 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples
11.3 Inference about Two Proportions
11.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Invest?
Case Study: Control in the Design of Experiment (On CD)
12. Additional Inferential Procedures
12.1 Goodness of Fit Test
12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions
12.3 Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model
12.4 Confidence and Prediction Intervals
Chapter Review
Chapter Test
Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College
Case Study: Feeling Lucky? Well, Are You? (on CD)
Additional Topics on CD-ROM
C.1 Lines
C.2 Confidence Intervals about a Population Standard Deviation
C.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Standard Deviation
C.4 Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance)
Appendix A. Tables
Answers
Index
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