Statistics : learning from data /
Roxy Peck, Tom Short.
- Second edition
- Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, Inc., c2019
- xviii, 887 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Includes index.
Collecting data reasonable ways -- Graphical methods for describing data distributions -- Numerical methods for describing data distributions -- Describing bivariate numerical -- Probability -- Random variables and probability distributions -- An overview of statistical inference – learning from data -- Sampling variability and sampling -- Estimating a population proportion -- Asking and answering questions about a population proportion -- Asking and answering questions about the difference between two proportions -- Asking and answering questions about a population mean -- Asking and answering questions about the difference between two means -- Learning from categorical data -- Understanding relationships – numerical data -- Asking and answering questions about more than two means -- Table 1. Random numbers -- Table 2. Standard normal probabilities (cumulative z curve areas) -- Table 3. t Critical values -- Table 4. Tail areas for t curves -- Table 5. Upper-tail areas for chi-square distributions -- Table 6. Binomial probabilities -- Table 7. Values that capture specified upper-tail F curve areas -- Table 8. Critical values of q for the studentized range distribution.
9781337558082 (hardback)
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