Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

Brief Contents

To Teachers: About This Book

To Students: What Is Statistics?

About the Authors

Data Table Index

Beyond the Basics Index

PART I Looking at Data

Looking at Data—Distributions

Looking at Data—Relationships

PART II Probability and Inference

Probability: The Study of Randomness

Sampling Distributions

Introduction to Inference

Inference for Means

Inference for Proportions

PART III Topics in Inference

Inference for Categorical Data

Inference for Regression

Multiple Regression

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One-Way Analysis of Variance

Two-Way Analysis of Variance

Companion Chapters

(on the IPS website www.macmillanlearning.com/ips9e and in LaunchPad)

CHAPTER 14

Logistic Regression

14

CHAPTER 15

Nonparametric Tests

15

CHAPTER 16

Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests

16

CHAPTER 17

Statistics for Quality: Control and Capability

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Notes and Data Sources