The Eleventh Edition of this highly-regarded introductory text emphasizes inference and sound decision-making through its extensive coverage of data collection and analysis. McClave develops statistical thinking and teaches students to properly assess the credibility of inferences–from the vantage point of both the consumer and the producer. This edition incorporates more exercises and more visual features, such as redesigned end-of-chapter summaries and an increased use of applets. This text assumes a mathematical background of basic algebra.
Chapter 1 Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking
Chapter 2 Methods for Describing Sets of Data
Chapter 3 Probability
Chapter 4 Discrete Random Variables
Chapter 5 Continuous Random Variables
Chapter 6 Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7 Inferences Based on a Single Sample : Estimation with Confidence Intervals
Chapter 8 Inferences Based on a Single Sample : Tests of Hypothesis
Chapter 9 Inferences Based on a Two Samples : Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses
Chapter 10 Analy sis of Variance : Comparing More Than Two Means
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