Elementary Statistics

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Copyright: 2021

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics
1.1 Introduction to Statistics
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 2 Data Summarization
2.1 Tables and Graphs Displaying Quantitative Data
2.2 Measures of Central Tendency
2.3 Measures of Variability
2.4 Measures of Position
2.5 Proportions of a Population of Qualitative Data
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 3 Probability
3.1 Some Basic Counting Techniques
3.2 Some Basic Terms in Probability
3.3 Assessing Probabilities
3.4 The Addition Rule
3.5 Conditional Probability and Independence of Events
3.6 The Multiplication Rule
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 5 Confidence Intervals for u and P
5.1 The Distribution of the Sample Mean
5.2 Large n Confidence Intervals for a Mean
5.3 Small n Confidence Intervals for a Mean of a Bell-Shaped Distribution
5.4 The Distribution of the Sample Proportion
5.5 Large n Confidence Intervals for a Proportion
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 6 Hypothesis Testing: One Sample
6.1 Hypothesis Testing Generalities
6.2 Type I and Type II Errors
6.3 Tests concerning a Single Mean
6.4 Large Sample Tests for a Single Proportion
6.5 Tests and Confidence Intervals Concerning a Single Variance
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 7 Comparisons of Means, Proportions and Variances for Two Populations
7.1 Inferences for Two Independent means, Large n’s
7.2 Inferences for Two Independent Means, Small n’s
7.3 The Probability Distribution of D
7.4 Inferences for Two Propositions
7.5 Inferences for Two Variances
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 8 Comparing Two or More Populations
8.1 Various X2 Tests
8.2 A Test for Equality of r Means-Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 9 Using Bivariate Data
9.1 Descriptive Statistics for Bivariate Quantitative Data – Correlation and the Least Squares Line
Summary
Review Exercises

Answers to Odd Numbered Exercises
Appendix Tables

Gene R Sellers
Gene Sellers has been teaching Statistics at Sacramento City College and Golden Gate University since 1972.  He has taught at least 100 sections of Statistics at these two schools, and he is still teaching to Statistics classes each semester at Sacramento City College as an adjunct faculty.  Gene has been at least a co-author of all four editions of First Course in Statistics.  He has also participated in authoring at least 15 other textbooks, including beginning and intermediate algebra, and college algebra, plus trigonometry, and algebra+trigonometry texts.
Joseph H Phillips

Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics
1.1 Introduction to Statistics
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 2 Data Summarization
2.1 Tables and Graphs Displaying Quantitative Data
2.2 Measures of Central Tendency
2.3 Measures of Variability
2.4 Measures of Position
2.5 Proportions of a Population of Qualitative Data
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 3 Probability
3.1 Some Basic Counting Techniques
3.2 Some Basic Terms in Probability
3.3 Assessing Probabilities
3.4 The Addition Rule
3.5 Conditional Probability and Independence of Events
3.6 The Multiplication Rule
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 5 Confidence Intervals for u and P
5.1 The Distribution of the Sample Mean
5.2 Large n Confidence Intervals for a Mean
5.3 Small n Confidence Intervals for a Mean of a Bell-Shaped Distribution
5.4 The Distribution of the Sample Proportion
5.5 Large n Confidence Intervals for a Proportion
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 6 Hypothesis Testing: One Sample
6.1 Hypothesis Testing Generalities
6.2 Type I and Type II Errors
6.3 Tests concerning a Single Mean
6.4 Large Sample Tests for a Single Proportion
6.5 Tests and Confidence Intervals Concerning a Single Variance
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 7 Comparisons of Means, Proportions and Variances for Two Populations
7.1 Inferences for Two Independent means, Large n’s
7.2 Inferences for Two Independent Means, Small n’s
7.3 The Probability Distribution of D
7.4 Inferences for Two Propositions
7.5 Inferences for Two Variances
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 8 Comparing Two or More Populations
8.1 Various X2 Tests
8.2 A Test for Equality of r Means-Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Summary
Review Exercises

Chapter 9 Using Bivariate Data
9.1 Descriptive Statistics for Bivariate Quantitative Data – Correlation and the Least Squares Line
Summary
Review Exercises

Answers to Odd Numbered Exercises
Appendix Tables

Gene R Sellers
Gene Sellers has been teaching Statistics at Sacramento City College and Golden Gate University since 1972.  He has taught at least 100 sections of Statistics at these two schools, and he is still teaching to Statistics classes each semester at Sacramento City College as an adjunct faculty.  Gene has been at least a co-author of all four editions of First Course in Statistics.  He has also participated in authoring at least 15 other textbooks, including beginning and intermediate algebra, and college algebra, plus trigonometry, and algebra+trigonometry texts.
Joseph H Phillips