MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText Access Code (24 Months) for Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life

<p style="margin:0px;">Preface</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Supplements</p> <p style="margin:0px;">How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Applications Index</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">1. Speaking of Statistics</p> <p style="margin:0px;">1.1 What Is/Are Statistics?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">1.2 Sampling</p> <p style="margin:0px;">1.3 Types of Statistical Studies</p> <p style="margin:0px;">1.4 Should You Believe a Statistical Study?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGY: Are You Driving “Drunk” on Your Cell Phone?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON PUBLIC HEALTH: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">2. Measurement in Statistics</p> <p style="margin:0px;">2.1 Data Types and Levels of Measurement</p> <p style="margin:0px;">2.2 Dealing with Errors</p> <p style="margin:0px;">2.3 Uses of Percentages in Statistics</p> <p style="margin:0px;">2.4 Index Numbers</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Inflation Calculator</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON POLITICS: Who Benefited Most from Lower Tax Rates?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON ECONOMICS: Can a Redefined CPI Help the National Debt?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">3. Visual Displays of Data</p> <p style="margin:0px;">3.1 Frequency Tables </p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Frequency Tables</p> <p style="margin:0px;">3.2 Picturing Distributions of Data </p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Bar Graphs</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Pie Charts</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Line Charts and Histograms </p> <p style="margin:0px;">3.3 Graphics in the Media</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Graphs with Multiple Data Sets</p> <p style="margin:0px;">3.4 A Few Cautions about Graphics</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON HISTORY: Can War Be Described with a Graph? </p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT: Are We Changing Earth’s Atmosphere?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">4. Describing Data</p> <p style="margin:0px;">4.1 What Is Average?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Mean, Median, and Mode</p> <p style="margin:0px;">4.2 Shapes of Distributions</p> <p style="margin:0px;">4.3 Measures of Variation</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Quartiles </p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Boxplots</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Standard Deviation </p> <p style="margin:0px;">4.4 Statistical Paradoxes </p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON THE STOCK MARKET: What’s Average about the Dow?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON ECONOMICS: Are the Rich Getting Richer?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">5. A Normal World</p> <p style="margin:0px;">5.1 What Is Normal?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">5.2 Properties of the Normal Distribution </p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Standard Scores and Percentiles</p> <p style="margin:0px;">5.3 The Central Limit Theorem</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Can We Learn from SAT Trends?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGY: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">6. Probability in Statistics</p> <p style="margin:0px;">6.1 The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance</p> <p style="margin:0px;">6.2 Basics of Probability</p> <p style="margin:0px;">6.3 The Law of Large Numbers</p> <p style="margin:0px;">6.4 Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy</p> <p style="margin:0px;">6.5 Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section)</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON SOCIAL SCIENCE: Do Lotteries Harm the Poor?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON LAW: Is DNA Analysis Reliable?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">7. Correlation and Causality</p> <p style="margin:0px;">7.1 Seeking Correlation </p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Scatterplots and Correlation Coefficients</p> <p style="margin:0px;">7.2 Interpreting Correlations</p> <p style="margin:0px;">7.3 Best-Fit Lines and Prediction</p> <p style="margin:0px;">7.4 The Search for Causality</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Helps Children Learn to Read?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT: What Is Causing Global Warming?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">8. Inferences from Samples to Populations</p> <p style="margin:0px;">8.1 Sampling Distributions </p> <p style="margin:0px;">8.2 Estimating Population Means</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Confidence Interval for a Population Mean</p> <p style="margin:0px;">8.3 Estimating Population Proportions</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON HISTORY: Where Did Statistics Begin?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON LITERATURE: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">9. Hypothesis Testing</p> <p style="margin:0px;">9.1 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing</p> <p style="margin:0px;">9.2 Hypothesis Tests for Population Means</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Test for a Population Mean</p> <p style="margin:0px;">9.3 Hypothesis Tests for Population Proportions</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Test for a Population Proportion</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION: Will Your Education Help You Live Longer?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">10. t Tests, Two-Way Tables, and ANOVA</p> <p style="margin:0px;">10.1 t Distribution for Inferences about a Mean</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Confidence Intervals Using the t Distribution</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Tests with the t Distribution</p> <p style="margin:0px;">10.2 Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables</p> <p style="margin:0px;">10.3 Analysis of Variance (One-Way ANOVA)</p> <p style="margin:0px;">USING TECHNOLOGY: Analysis of Variance</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON CRIMINOLOGY: Can You Tell a Fraud When You See One?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Can a Fourth-Grader Do with Statistics?</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Epilogue: A Perspective on Statistics</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Appendix A: z-Score Tables</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Websites and Suggested Readings</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Glossary</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Credits</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Answers</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Index</p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p>