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Tables of Contents for Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
To the Student: How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course
xvi
Speaking of Statistics
1
56
What Is/Are Statistics?
2
11
Sampling
13
12
Types of Statistical Study
25
13
Should You Believe a Statistical Study?
38
19
Focus on Medicine: How Strong Is the Placebo Effect?
52
3
Focus on Public Health: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy?
55
2
Measurement in Statistics
57
40
Data Types and Levels of Measurement
58
6
Dealing with Errors
64
10
Uses and Abuses of Percentages in Statistics
74
9
Index Numbers
83
14
Focus on Politics: Who Benefits from a Tax Cut?
91
2
Focus on Economics: Does the Consumer Price Index Really Measure Inflation?
93
4
Visual Displays of Data
97
64
Frequency Tables
98
10
Picturing Distributions of Data
108
18
Graphics in the Media
126
17
A Few Cautions About Graphics
143
18
Focus on History: Can War Be Described with a Graph?
156
2
Focus on Environment: How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere?
158
3
Describing Data
161
50
What Is Average?
162
14
Shapes of Distributions
176
9
Measures of Variation
185
26
Focus on the Stock Market: What's Average About the Dow?
203
4
Focus on Social Science: Are the Rich Getting Richer?
207
4
A Normal World
211
44
What Is Normal?
212
11
Properties of the Normal Distribution
223
15
The Central Limit Theorem
238
17
Focus on Education: What Do SAT Scores Mean?
248
3
Focus on Psychology: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents?
251
4
Probability in Statistics
255
72
Statistical Significance
256
5
Basics of Probability
261
20
In the Long Run, What Do You Expect?
281
11
Assessing Risk
292
10
Rules for Combining Probabilities
302
25
Focus on Social Science: Are Lotteries Fair?
315
4
Focus on Law: Is DNA Fingerprinting Reliable?
319
4
Focus on Psychology: What Does Your Intuition Say About Risks?
323
4
Correlation and Causality
327
56
Seeking Correlation
328
18
Interpreting Correlations
346
10
Best-Fit Lines and Prediction
356
10
The Search for Causality
366
17
Focus on Education: What Helps Children Read?
377
3
Focus on Public Health: What Do Disease Clusters Mean?
380
3
From Samples to Populations
383
38
Sampling Distributions
384
13
Estimating Population Means
397
10
Estimating Population Proportions
407
14
Focus on Media: Did NBC Lose $66 Million to a Nielsen Sampling Error?
416
2
Focus on Literature: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?
418
3
Hypothesis Testing
421
56
Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing
422
9
Setting Up Hypothesis Tests
431
6
Hypothesis Tests for Population Means
437
13
Hypothesis Testing: Further Considerations
450
11
Hypothesis Testing: Population Proportions
461
16
Focus on History: Where Did Statistics Begin?
470
3
Focus on Agriculture: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?
473
4
Relationships in Tables
477
50
Understanding Two-Way Tables
478
13
Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables
491
13
Risk, Paradox, and Probability
504
23
Focus on Criminology: Can You Tell a Fraud When You See One?
519
3
Focus on Education: What Can a Fourth Grader Do with Statistics?
522
5
Appendix: State Data
527
Answers
A-1
1
Credits
C-1
1
Index
I-1