Essential Statistics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv What is statistics?....Pages 1-5 Some statistical notation....Pages 6-10 Summarizing data by tables and by graphical methods....Pages 11-23 Summarizing data by numerical measures....Pages 24-38 Probability....Pages 39-51 Discrete probability distributions....Pages 52-64 Continuous probability distributions....Pages 65-76 Samples and populations....Pages 77-84 Confidence interval estimation....Pages 85-99 Hypothesis testing....Pages 100-115 Non-parametric hypothesis tests....Pages 116-129 Association of categorical variables....Pages 130-138 Correlation of quantitative variables....Pages 139-152 Regression analysis....Pages 153-166 χ 2 goodness-of-fit tests....Pages 167-180 Minitab....Pages 181-201 Back Matter....Pages 202-258 An introductory text book for students taking statistics as a subsidiary to one of the sciences. The emphasis is on the concepts and assumptions underlying the various statistical methods used to analyze data gathered in surveys and experiments.