Statistics: Concepts and Controversies (Paperback)

1 Where Do Data Come From? 2 Samples, Good and Bad 3 What Do Samples Tell Us? 4 Sample Surveys in the Real World 5 Experiments, Good and Bad 6 Experiments in the Real World 7 Data Ethics 8 Measuring 9 Do the Numbers Make Sense? 10 Graphs, Good and Bad 11 Displaying Distributions with Graphs 12 Describing Distributions with Numbers 13 Normal Distributions 14 Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation 15 Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation 16 The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics 17 Thinking about Chance 18 Probability Models 19 Simulation 20 The House Edge: Expected Values 21 What Is a Confidence Interval? 22 What Is a Test of Significance? 23 Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference 24 Two-Way Tables and the Chi-Square Test Index