Essential Statistics

To the Instructor: About This Book
To the Student: What Lies Ahead in This Book

PART 1:
Exploring Data 1 1
Exploring Data: Variables and Distributions
CHAPTER 1
Picturing Distributions with Graphs
CHAPTER 2 Describing Distributions
with Numbers
CHAPTER 3 The Normal Distributions
Exploring Data: Relationships
CHAPTER 4 Scatterplots and Correlation
CHAPTER 5 Regression
CHAPTER 6 Exploring Data
Part 1 Review

PART II:
From Exploration to Inference 1 127
Producing Data
CHAPTER 7 Producing Data: Sampling
CHAPTER 8 Producing Data: Experiments
Probability and Sampling Distributions
CHAPTER 9 Introducing Probability
CHAPTER 10 Sampling Distributions
CHAPTER 11 General Rules of Probability*
CHAPTER 12 Binomial Distributions*
Introducing Inference
CHAPTER 13 Introduction to Inference
CHAPTER 14 Thinking about Inference
CHAPTER 15 From Exploration to Inference:
Part II Review

PART III:
Inference about Variables | 233
Quantitative Response Variable
CHAPTER 18 Inference about a Population Mean
CHAPTER 17 Two-Sample Problems
Categorical Response Variable
CHAPTER 18 Inference about a
Population Proportion
CHAPTER 19 Comparing Two Proportions
CHAPTER 20 Inference about Variables:
Part III Review

PART IV:
Inference about Relationships | 303
CHAPTER 21 Two Categorical Variables:
The Chi-Square Test
CHAPTER 22 Inference for Regression
CHAPTER 23 One-Way Analysis of Variance:
Comparing Several Means

Additional Material (available
on the Essential Statistics CD and
Web site www.whfreeman.com/essentialstats)

CHAPTER 24 Nonparametric Tests
Commentary: Data Ethics
Applets for Interactive Learning