original edition Published by the Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 2006
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Unit I. Descriptive statistics - Introduction : what is statistics all about? - Using polystat to do statistical analysis - Presentation of data - Summarizing data and using descriptive statistics - Unit II. Basic probability and probability distributions - Basic probability : theory and applications - Sampling and the normal distribution - The central limit theorem - Unit III. Hypothesis testing - Introduction to inferential statistics - Estimating means, proportions, and sample size with confidence - Validating a hypothesis about a single population mean using a sample - Validating hypotheses between two population means - Validating hypotheses about a single population proportion - Validating hypotheses about two population proportions - Unit IV. Measures of association - Comparing more than two population means with anova - Comparing more than two population proportions using the chi-square test - Determining relationships for two variables using correlation - Measuring relationships with simple regression analysis - Measuring multivariate relationships with regression analysis - Planning statistical research