Statistics Informed Decisions Using Data, 6th edition By Michael Sullivan (Solutions Manual )

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Resources for Success Applications Index I. GETTING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED Data Collection 1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 1.2 Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments ... 1.3 Simple Random Sampling 1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods 1.5 Bias in Sampling 1.6 The Design of Experiments Chapter 1 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend? Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash II. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Organizing and Summarizing Data 2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data 2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data: The Popular Displays 2.3 Additional Displays of Quantitative Data 2.4 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data Chapter 2 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs? Case Study: The Day the Sky Roared Numerically Summarizing Data 3.1 Measures of Central Tendency 3.2 Measures of Dispersion 3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data 3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers 3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots Chapter 3 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy? Case Study: Who Was "A Mourner"? Describing the Relation between Two Variables 4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation 4.2 Least-Squares Regression 4.3 Diagnostics on the Least-Squares Regression Line 4.4 Contingency Tables and Association 4.5 Nonlinear Regression: Transformations (online) Chapter 4 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Relationships among Variables on a World Scale Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence III. PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS Probability 5.1 Probability Rules 5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements 5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule 5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule 5.5 Counting Techniques 5.6 Simulating Probability Experiments 5.7 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 5.8 Bayes's Rule (online) Chapter 5 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: The Effects of Drinking and Driving Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag Discrete Probability Distributions 6.1 Discrete Random Variables 6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution 6.3 The Poisson Probability Distribution 6.4 The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution (online) 6.5 Combining Random Variables (online) Chapter 6 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict? Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew The Normal Probability Distribution 7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution 7.2 Applications of the Normal Distribution 7.3 Assessing Normality 7.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution Chapter 7 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking Case Study: A Tale of Blood Chemistry IV. INFERENCE: FROM SAMPLES TO POPULATION Sampling Distributions 8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean 8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion Chapter 8 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day . . . ? Case Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median Estimating the Value of a Parameter 9.1 Estimating a Population Proportion 9.2 Estimating a Population Mean 9.3 Estimating a Population Standard Deviation 9.4 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 9.5 Estimating with Bootstrapping Chapter 9 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: How Much Should I Spend for this House? Case Study: Fire-Safe Cigarettes Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter 10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing 10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion 10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean 10.4 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Standard Deviation 10.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 10.6 The Probability of a Type II Error and the Power of the Test 10.2A Using Simulation to Perform Hypothesis Tests on a Population Proportion (online) 10.2B Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion Using the Normal Model (online) 10.3A Using Simulation and the Bootstrap to Perform Hypothesis Tests on a Population Mean (online) Chapter 10 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Selecting a Mutual Fund Case Study: How Old Is Stonehenge? Inference on Two Population Parameters 11.1 Inference about Two Population Proportions 11.2 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples 11.3 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples 11.4 Inference about Two Population Standard Deviations 11.5 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? 11.1A Using Randomization Techniques to Compare Two Proportions (online) 11.2A Using Bootstrapping to Conduct Inference on Two Dependent Means (online) 11.3A Using Randomization Techniques to Compare Two Independent Means (online) Chapter 11 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Which Car Should I Buy? Case Study: Control in the Design of an Experiment Inference on Categorical Data 12.1 Goodness-of-Fit Test 12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions 12.3 Inference about Two Population Proportions: Dependent Samples Chapter 12 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College Case Study: Feeling Lucky? Well, Are You? Comparing Three or More Means 13.1 Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance) 13.2 Post Hoc Tests on One-Way Analysis of Variance 13.3 The Randomized Complete Block Design 13.4 Two-Way Analysis of Variance Chapter 13 Review Chapter Test 687 Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Invest? Case Study: Hat Size and Intelligence Inference on the Least-Squares Regression Model and Multiple Regression 14.1 Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model 14.2 Confidence and Prediction Intervals 14.3 Introduction to Multiple Regression 14.4 Interaction and Dummy Variables 14.5 Polynomial Regression 14.6 Building a Regression Model 14.1A Using Randomization Techniques on the Slope of the Least-Squares Regression Line (online) Chapter 14 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Buying a Home Case Study: Housing Boom Nonparametric Statistics 15.1 An Overview of Nonparametric Statistics 15.2 Runs Test for Randomness 15.3 Inference about Measures of Central Tendency 15.4 Inference about the Difference between Two Medians: Dependent Samples 15.5 Inference about the Difference between Two Medians: Independent Samples 15.6 Spearman's Rank-Correlation Test 15.7 Kruskal - Wallis Test Chapter 15 Review Chapter Test Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Live? Case Study: Evaluating Alabama's 1891 House Bill 504 Photo Credits Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Lines (online) Answers Index [Show More]

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