Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference (Hardcover)

What Is Statistics?

Tools for Exploring Univariate Data.

Exploratory Tools for Relationships.

Probabilities and Proportions.

Discrete Random Variables.

Continuous Random Variables.

Sampling Distributions of Estimates.

Confidence Intervals.

Significance Testing: Using Data to Test Hypotheses.

Data on a Continuous Variable.

Tables of Counts.

Relationships between Quantitative Variables: Regression and Correlation.

Control Charts.

Time Series.

Appendices.

References.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Index.