The Major improvements are:
- Using Statistics Wisely Feature. Provides important guidelines for the appropriate use of statistics.
Included at the end of each chapter.
- Integrated Technology. A summary of the steps for using MINITAB, EXCEL, and the TI-84 calculator is
included at the TI-84 calculator is included at the end of most chapters. This concentrates the
presentation of special purpose instructions so that, with few exceptions, only computer output is
needed in the text.
- More Data-Based Exercises. Some of the new exercises are keyed to new data based examples in the
text. Others are based on the new grizzly bear data set added to the data bank.
- New Exercises. Further new exercises providing practice on concepts, together with many new
computational exercises, augment the already rich collection of exercises.
1. Introduction
2. Organization and Description of Data
3. Descriptive Study of Bivariate Data
4. Probability
5. Probability Distributions
6. The Normal Distribution
7. Variation in Repeated Samples Sampling Distributions
8. Drawing Inferences from Larges Samples
9. Small-Sample Inferences for Normal Populations
10. Comparing Two Treatments
Etc.