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Workshop statistics : discovery with data and Minitab /

Workshop Statistics: Discovery Through Data is one of the most successful new textbooks in recent years, emphasizing a hands-on, laboratory approach to introductory statistics. For this version author Allan Rossman is joined by Beth Chance, University of the Pacific, and in it they incorporate Minit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rossman, Allan J.
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), Workshop Mathematics Project
Other Authors: Chance, Beth L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [1998]
Subjects:
Minitab.
Mathematical statistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Unit I Exploring Data: Distributions
  • Topic 1 Data and Variables I
  • Topic 2 Data and Variables II
  • Topic 3 Displaying and Describing Distributions
  • Topic 4 Measures of Center
  • Topic 5 Measures of Spread
  • Topic 6 Comparing Distributions
  • Unit II Exploring Data: Relationships
  • Topic 7 Graphical Displays of Association
  • Topic 8 Correlation Coefficient
  • Topic 9 Least Squares Regression I
  • Topic 10 Least Squares Regression II
  • Topic 11 Relationships with Categorical Variables
  • Unit III Randomness
  • Topic 12 Random Sampling
  • Topic 13 Sampling Distributions I: Confidence
  • Topic 14 Sampling Distributions II: Significance
  • Topic 15 Normal Distributions
  • Topic 16 Central Limit Theorem
  • Unit IV Inference from Data: Principles
  • Topic 17 Confidence Intervals I
  • Topic 18 Confidence Intervals II
  • Topic 19 Tests of Significance I
  • Topic 20 Tests of Significance II
  • Unit V Inference from Data: Comparisons
  • Topic 21 Designing Experiments
  • Topic 22 Comparing Two Proportions I
  • Topic 23 Comparing Two Proportions II
  • Unit VI Inference from Data: Measurements
  • Topic 24 Inference for a Population Mean I
  • Topic 25 Inference for a Population Mean II
  • Topic 26 Comparing Two Means
  • Table I: Standard Normal Probabilities
  • Table II: t-Distribution Critical Values
  • Appendix A: Overview of Minitab
  • Appendix B: Student Glossary
  • Appendix C: Listings of Hypothetical Data Sets
  • Appendix D: Sources for Data Sets.