ELEMENTARY STATISTICS 6E GE - RON LARSON 9781292058610

TITLE :ELEMENTARY STATISTICS 6E GE - RON LARSON

ISBN13 : 9781292058610

PUBLISHER : PEARSON (2015)

EDITION : 6TH GLOBAL EDITION PAPERBACK

PAGES : 704 COLOR PAGES 

For algebra-based introductory statistics courses
Statistics opens a window to the modern world, and this market-leading text makes it easy to understand! Larson and Farber's Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Sixth Edition, provides stepped out instruction, real-life examples and exercises, and the use of technology to offer the most accessible approach. The authors carefully develop theory through strong pedagogy, and examples show how statistics is used to picture and describe the world. In keeping with the premise that students learn best by doing, it includes more than 210 examples and more than 2300 exercises, to make the concepts of statistics a part of students' everyday lives.

Table of Contents

PART ONE. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

1. Introduction to Statistics

1.1. An Overview of Statistics

1.2. Data Classification

   Case Study: Rating Television Shows in the

   United States

1.3. Data Collection and Experimental Design

   Activity: Random Numbers

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   History of Statistics-Timeline

   Technology: Using Technology in Statistics

2. Descriptive Statistics

2.1. Frequency Distributions and Their Graphs

2.2. More Graphs and Displays

2.3. Measures of Central Tendency

   Activity: Mean Versus Median

2.4. Measures of Variation

   Activity: Standard Deviation

   Case Study: Business Size

2.5. Measures of Position

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Parking Tickets

   Using Technology to Determine Descriptive

   Statistics

Cumulative Review: Chapters 1 and 2

PART TWO. PROBABILITY & PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

3. Probability

3.1. Basic Concepts of Probability and Counting

   Activity: Simulating the Stock Market

3.2. Conditional Probability and the Multiplication Rule

3.3. The Addition Rule

   Activity: Simulating the Probability of Rolling a 3 or 4

   Case Study: United States Congress

3.4. Additional Topics in Probability and Counting

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Simulation: Composing Mozart

   Variations with Dice

4. Discrete Probability Distributions

4.1. Probability Distributions

4.2. Binomial Distributions

   Activity: Binomial Distribution

   Case Study: Distribution of Number of Hits in

   Baseball Games

4.3. More Discrete Probability Distributions

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Simulation: Using Poisson

   Distributions as Queuing Models

5. Normal Probability Distributions

5.1. Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution

5.2. Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities

5.3. Normal Distributions: Finding Values

   Case Study: Birth Rates in America

5.4. Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

   Activity: Sampling Distributions

5.5. Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Simulation: Age Distribution in the

   United States

Cumulative Review: Chapters 3 to 5

PART THREE. STATISTICAL INFERENCE

6. Confidence Intervals

6.1. Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Υ Known)

6.2. Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Υ Unknown)

   Activity: Confidence Intervals for a Mean

   Case Study: Marathon Training

6.3. Confidence Intervals for Population Proportions

   Activity: Confidence Intervals for a Proportion

6.4. Confidence Intervals for Variance and Standard Deviation

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Simulation: Most Admired Polls

   Using Technology to Construct Confidence

   Intervals

7. Hypothesis Testing with One Sample

7.1. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

7.2. Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Υ Known)

7.3. Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Υ Unknown)

   Activity: Hypothesis Test for a Mean

   Case Study: Human Body Temperature: What's

   Normal?

7.4. Hypothesis Testing for Proportions

   Activity: Hypothesis Test for a Proportion

7.5. Hypothesis Testing for Variance and Standard Deviation

A Summary of Hypothesis Testing

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: The Case of the Vanishing Women

   Using Technology to Perform Hypothesis Tests

8. Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples

8.1. Testing the Difference Between Means (Independent Samples, Υ₁ and Υ₂ Known)

8.2. Testing the Difference Between Means (Independent Samples, Υ₁ and Υ₂ Unknown)

8.3. Testing the Difference Between Means (Dependent Samples)

8.4. Testing the Difference Between Proportions

A Summary of Hypothesis Testing

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Tails over Heads

   Using Technology to Perform Two-Sample

   Hypothesis Tests

Cumulative Review: Chapters 6 to 8

PART FOUR. MORE STATISTICAL INFERENCE

9. Correlation and Regression

9.1 Correlation

   Activity: Correlation by Eye

9.2. Linear Regression

   Activity: Regression by Eye

   Case Study: Correlation by Body Measurements

9.3. Measures of Regression and Prediction Intervals

9.4. Multiple Regression

A Summary of Hypothesis Testing

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Nutrients in Breakfast Cereals

10. Chi-Square Tests and the F-Distribution

10.1. Goodness-of-Fit Test

10.2. Independence

   Case Study: Food Safety Survey

10.3. Comparing Two Variances

10.4. Analysis of Variance

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: Teacher Salaries

Cumulative Review: Chapters 9 and 10

11. Nonparametric Tests (Online and CD Only)

11.1. The Sign Test

11.2. The Wilcoxon Tests

   Case Study: College Ranks

11.3. The Kruskal-Wallis Test

11.4. Rank Correlation

11.5. The Runs Test

   Uses and Abuses

Chapter Summary

Review Exercises

Chapter Quiz

Chapter Test

   Real Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All Together

   Technology: U.S. Income and Economic

   Research