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Math 170: Introduction to Applied Statistics Resource Center

 

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Chapter 1

  • Section 1.3: Statistics and the Data Analysis Process
  • Section 1.4: Types of Data and Some Simple Graphical Displays

Chapter 2

  • Section 2.1: Statistical Studies: Observation and Experimentation
  • Section 2.2: Sampling
  • Section 2.3: Simple Comparative Experiments

Chapter 3

  • Section 3.1: Displaying Categorical Data: Comparative Bar Charts and Pie Charts
  • Section 3.2: Displaying Numerical Data: Stem-and-Leaf Display
  • Section 3.3: Displaying Numerical Data: Frequency Distribution and Histograms
  • Section 3.4: Displaying Bivariate Data
  • Section 3.5: Interpreting and Communicating The Results of Statistical Analyses

Chapter 3 handout

Chapter 4

  • Section 4.1: Describing the Center of a Data Set
  • Section 4.2: Describing Variability in a Data Set
  • Section 4.3: Summarizing a Data Set: Box Plots
  • Section 4.4: Interpreting Center and Variability: Chebychev's Rule, The Empirical Rule, and Z-Scores 

Chapter 5

  • Section 5.1: Correlation
  • Section 5.2: Linear Regression: Fitting a Line to Bivariate Data
  • Section 5.3: Assessing the Fit of a Line
  • Section 5.5: Logistic Regression

Chapter 6

  • Section 6.1: Chance Experiments and Evidence
  • Section 6.2: Definition of Probability
  • Section 6.3:Basic Properties of Probability
  • Section 6.4: Conditional Probability
  • Section 6.5: Independence

Chapter 7

  • Section 7.1: Random Variables
  • Section 7.2: Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables
  • Section 7.3: Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables
  • Section 7.4: Mean and Standard Deviation of Random Variables
  • Section 7.5: Binomial and Geometric Distributions
  • Section 7.6: Normal Distributions

Chapter 8

  • Section 8.1: Statistics and Sampling Variability
  • Section 8.2: The Sampling Distribution of a Sample Mean
  • Section 8.3: The Sampling Distribution of a Sample Proportion

Chapter 9

  • Section 9.1: Point Estimation
  • Section 9.2: Large Sample Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
  • Section 9.3: Confidence Interval with a Population Mean
  • Section 9.4: Interpreting and Communicating the Results of Statistical Analyses

Chapter 10

  • Section 10.1: Hypothesis and Testing Procedures
  • Section 10.2: Errors in Hypothesis Testing
  • Section 10.3: Large Sample Hypothesis Test for a Population Proportion
  • Section 10.4: Hypothesis Test for a Population Mean
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