Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

1.1 Data.-



1.2 Displaying Distributions with Graphs.-



1.3 Describing Distributions with Numbers.-



1.4 Density Curves and Normal Distributions.-



2.1 Relationships.-



2.2 Scatterplots.-



2.3 Correlation.-



2.4 Least-Squares Regression.-



2.5 Cautions about Correlation and Regression.-



<2.6 Data Analysis for Two-Way Tables.-



2.7 The Question of Causation.-



3.1 Sources of Data.-



3.2 Design of Experiments.-



3.3 Sampling Design.-



3.4 Ethics.-



4.1 Randomness.-



4.2 Probability Models.-



4.3 Random Variables.-



4.4 Means and Variances of Random Variables.-



4.5 General Probability Rules.-



5.1 Toward Statistical Inference.-



5.2 The Sampling Distribution of a Sample Mean.-



5.3 Sampling Distributions for Counts and Proportions.-



6.1 Estimating with Confidence.-



6.2 Tests of Significance.-



6.3 Use and Abuse of Tests.-



6.4 Power and Inference as a Decision

Power.-



7.1 Inference for the Mean of a Population.-



7.2 Comparing Two Means.-



7.3 Additional Topics on Inference.-



8.1 Inference for a Single Proportion.-



8.2 Comparing Two Proportions.-



9.1 Inference for Two-Way Tables.-



10.1 Simple Linear Regression.-



10.2 More Detail about Simple Linear Regression.-



11.1 Inference for Multiple Regression.-



11.2 A Case Study.-



12.1 Inference for One-Way Analysis of Variance.-



12.2 Comparing the Means.-



13.1 The Two-Way ANOVA Model.-



14.1 The Logistic Regression Model.-



14.2 Inference for Logistic Regression.-



15.1 The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test.-



15.2 The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test.-



15.3 The Kruskal-Wallis Test.-



16.1 The Bootstrap Idea.-



16.2 First Steps in Using the Bootstrap.-



16.3 How Accurate Is a Bootstrap Distribution?.-



16.4 Bootstrap Confidence Intervals.-



16.5 Significance Testing Using Permutation Tests.-



17.1 Processes and Statistical Process Control.-



17.2 Using Control Charts.-



17.3 Process Capability Indexes.-



17.4 Control Charts for Sample Proportions.-