The Basic Practice of Statistics

PART I: EXPLORING DATA - Exploring Data: Variables and Distributions - Picturing Distributions with Graphs - Describing Distributions with Numbers - The Normal Distributions - Exploring Data: Relationships - Scatterplots and Correlation - Regression - Two-Way Tables - Exploring Data: Part I Review - PART II: FROM EXPLORATION TO INFERENCE - Producing Data - Producing Data: Sampling - Producing Data: Experiments - Commentary: Data Ethics - Probability and Sampling Distributions - Introducing Probability - Sampling Distributions - General Rules of Probability - Binomial Distributions - Foundations of Inference - Introduction to Inference - Thinking About Inference - From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review - PART III: INFERENCE ABOUT VARIABLES - Quantitative Response Variable - Inference About a Population Mean - Two-Sample Problems - Categorical Response Variable - Inference About a Population Proportion - Comparing Two Proportions - Inference About Variables: Part III Review - PART IV: INFERENCE ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS - Inference About Relationships - Two Categorical Variables: The Chi-Square Test - Inference for Regression - One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means - PART V: OPTIONAL COMPANION CHAPTERS - Nonparametric Tests - Statistical Process Control - Multiple Regression - Two-Way Analysis of Variance -