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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Data

Case Study: Deadly Cell Phones?

1.1 What Are Data?

1.2 Classifying and Storing Data

1.3 Organizing Categorical Data

1.4 Collecting Data to Understand Causality

Exploring Statistics: Collecting a Table of Different Kinds of Data

 

2. Picturing Variation with Graphs

Case Study: Student-to-Teacher Ratio at Private and Public Colleges

2.1 Visualizing Variation in Numerical Data

2.2 Summarizing Important Features of a Numerical Distribution

2.3 Visualizing Variation in Categorical Variables

2.4 Summarizing Categorical Distributions

2.5 Interpreting Graphs

Exploring Statistics: Personal Distance

 

3. Numerical Summaries of Center and Variation

Case Study: Living in a Risky World

3.1 Summaries for Symmetric Distributions

3.2 What's Unusual? The Empirical Rule and z-Scores

3.3 Summaries for Skewed Distributions

3.4 Comparing Measures of Center

3.5 Using Boxplots for Displaying Summaries

Exploring Statistics: Does Reaction Distance Depend on Gender?

 

4. Regression Analysis: Exploring Associations between Variables

Case Study: Catching Meter Thieves

4.1 Visualizing Variability with a Scatterplot

4.2 Measuring Strength of Association with Correlation

4.3 Modeling Linear Trends

4.4 Evaluating the Linear Model

Exploring Statistics: Guessing the Age of Famous People

 

5. Modeling Variation with Probability

Case Study: SIDS or Murder?

5.1 What is Randomness?

5.2 Finding Theoretical Probabilities

5.3 Associations in Categorical Variables

5.4 Finding Empirical Probabilities with Simulations

Exploring Statistics: "Let's Make a Deal": Stay or Switch?

 

6. Modeling Random Events: The Normal and Binomial Models

Case Study: You Sometimes Get More Than You Pay For

6.1 Probability Distributions Are Models of Random Experiments

6.2 The Normal Model

6.3 The Binomial Model

Exploring Statistics: ESP with Coin Flipping

 

7. Survey Sampling and Inference

Case Study: Spring Break Fever: Just What the Doctors Ordered?

7.1 Learning about the World through Surveys

7.2 Measuring the Quality of a Survey

7.3 The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Proportions

7.4 Estimating the Population Proportion with Confidence Intervals

7.5 Margin of Error and Sample Size for Proportions (Optional)

Exploring Statistics: Simple Random Sampling Prevents Bias

 

8. Hypothesis Testing for Population Proportions

Case Study: Does Watching Violent TV as a Child Lead to Violent Behavior as an Adult?

8.1 The Main Ingredients of Hypothesis Testing

8.2 Characterizing p-values

8.3 Hypothesis Testing in Four Steps

8.4 Comparing Proportions from Two Populations

8.5 Understanding Hypothesis Testing

Exploring Statistics: Identifying Flavors of Gum through Smell

 

9. Inferring Population Means

Case Study: Epilepsy Drugs and Children

9.1 Sample Means of Random Samples

9.2 The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Means

9.3 Answering Questions about the Mean of a Population

9.4 Comparing Two Population Means

9.5 Overview of Analyzing Means

Exploring Statistics: Pulse Rates

 

10. Associations between Categorical Variables

Case Study: Popping Better Popcorn

10.1 The Basic Ingredients for Testing with Categorical Variables

10.2 The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit

10.3 Chi-Square Tests for Associations between Categorical Variables

10.4 Hypothesis Tests When Sample Sizes Are Small

Exploring Statistics: Skittles

 

11. Multiple Comparisons and Analysis of Variance

Case Study: Seeing Red

11.1 Multiple Comparisons

11.2 The Analysis of Variance

11.3 The ANOVA Test

11.4 Post-Hoc Procedures

Exploring Statistics: Recovery Heart Rate

 

12. Experimental Design: Controlling Variation

Case Study: Does Stretching Improve Athletic Performance?

12.1 Variation Out of Control

12.2 Controlling Variation in Surveys

12.3 Reading Research Papers

Exploring Statistics: Reporting on Research Activities

 

13. Inference without Normality

Case Study: Electric Rays

13.1 Transforming Data

13.2 The Sign Test for Paired Data

13.3 Mann-Whitney Test for Two Independent Groups

13.4 Randomization Tests

Exploring Statistics: Balancing on One Foot

 

14. Inference for Regression

Case Study: Building a Better Oyster Shucker

14.1 The Linear Regression Model

14.2 Using the Linear Model

14.3 Predicting Values and Estimating Means

Exploring Statistics: Older and Slower?

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