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020 _a978-1-292-26046-4
082 _22019
_aDC 519.5
_bL329
100 _aLarson, Ron.
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245 _aElementary statistics :
_bpicturing the world/
_cRon Larson; Elizabeth Farber
250 _aSeventh Edition
260 _aHarlow, United Kingdom :
_bPearson Education Limited,
_c[2019].
300 _a603, [94] pages :
_billustrations ;
_c28 cm
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Index of Applications; Part 1 Introduction to Statistics; 1 Introduction to Statistics; Where You've Been; Where You're Going; 1.1 An Overview o f Statistics; 1.2 Data Classification; Case Study: Reputations of Companies in the U.S.; 1.3 Data Collection and Experimental Design; Activity: Random Numbers; Uses and Abuses: Statistics in the Real World; Chapter Summary; Review Exercises; Chapter Quiz; Chapter Test; Real Statistics-Real Decisions: Putting it all together; History of Statistics-Timeline. Technology: Using Technology in Statistics2 Descriptive Statistics; Where You're Going; Where You've Been; 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: Statistics In The Real World; Chapter Summary; Review Exercises; Chapter Quiz; Chapter Test; Real Statistics-Real Decisions: Putting it all together; Technology: Parking Tickets. Using Technology to Determine Descriptive StatisticsCumulative Review: Chapters 1 and 2; Part 2 Probability and Probability Distributions; 3 Probability; Where You're Going; Where You've Been; 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: Statistics in the Real World; Chapter Summary; Review Exercises; Chapter Quiz. Chapter TestReal Statistics-Real Decisions: Putting it all together; Technology: Simulation: Composing Mozart Variations with Dice; 4 Discrete Probability Distributions; Where You've Been; Where You're Going; 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: Statistics in the Real World; Chapter Summary; Review Exercises; Chapter Quiz; Chapter Test; Real Statistics-Real Decisions: Putting it all together. Technology: Using Poisson Distributions as Queuing Models5 Normal Probability Distributions; Where You're Going; Where You've Been; 5.1 ntroduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution; 5.2 Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities; 5.3 Normal Distributions: Finding Values; Case Study: Birth Weights in America; 5.4 Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem; Activity: Sampling Distributions; 5.5 Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions; Uses and Abuses: Statistics in the Real World; Chapter Summary; Review Exercises; Chapter Quiz.
650 _aStatistics -- Textbooks.
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700 _aFarber, Elizabeth
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