Statistics

This text emphasizes inference and sound decision-making through its extensive coverage of data collection and analysis. Topics are: statistics, data, and statistical thinking; methods for describing sets of data; probability; discrete random variables; continuous random variables; sampling distributions; inferences based on a single sample: estimation with confidence intervals; inferences based on a single sample: tests of hypothesis; inferences based on a two samples: confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses; analysis of variance: comparing more than two means; simple linear regression; multiple regression and model building; categorical data analysis; nonparametric statistic