FAQS in STATS

Having trouble learning statistics? This book provides easy, step by step, recipes for the material in freshman statistics. Its a book your professor will hate. Its written for students.

The step by step procedures describe how to calculate all statistial quantities without the need for extra software or special statistical calculators. These are ideal for students who want to learn the underlying procedures and arithmetic, or who cannot afford to purchase, for example, a TI-84.

Includes optional technology examples on the TI-84, R, and Excel (where applicable). These optional examples, which can be skipped by students who do not use or require technology in their coursework, provide simple procedures for solving statistical problems.

Contents in Brief: histograms, stem plots, the median, mean, standard deviation, IQR, five number summary, outliers, box and whisker plots, normal distributions, parameters and statistics, central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, inference on the mean, inference on a proportion, inference on difference of means, inference on difference of proportions, two way tables, marginal distributions, chi square tests, scatter plots, linear regression, correlation. With over 300 exercises.

Audience: students taking freshman statistics for the first time; students returning to take stats after a long break in school; students interesting in basic stats with little formal mathematics background.

Pre-requisite: some high school algebra at the level of being able to read and understand equations with variables in them and fill in the blanks. Algebraic manipulation is not needed to solve the problems or follow the recipes. A typical reader is a student who is ready to enroll in college algebra for the first time.