Statistics Companion: Support for Introductory Statistics 1st edition

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Roxy Peck and Tom Short
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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  • Chapter 0: Smart Study Strategies
    • 0: Concept Explorations
    • 0.1: The Learning and Memory Process
    • 0.2: The Study Plan for Statistics
    • 0.3: Productive Self-Concept Through Mindfulness
    • 0.4: Putting It All Together

  • Chapter 1: Getting Ready for Statistics
    • 1.1: Numbers and the Number Line—A Quick Review
    • 1.2: Rounding Decimal Numbers
    • 1.3: Ordering Decimal Numbers
    • 1.4: Getting to Know Your Calculator—Order of Operations, Powers of Numbers, Square Roots, and Scientific Notation

  • Chapter 2: Creating Graphical Displays—The Math You Need to Know
    • 2: Concept Explorations
    • 2.1: Review—Rounding Decimal Numbers, Plotting Points on the Number Line
    • 2.2: Selecting an Appropriate Numerical Scale
    • 2.3: Intervals and Interval Widths
    • 2.4: Proportions, Decimal Numbers, and Percentages
    • 2.5: Plotting Points in Two Dimensions
    • 2.6: Evaluating Expressions

  • Chapter 3: Measures of Center and Variability—The Math You Need to Know
    • 3: Concept Explorations
    • 3.1: Review—Ordering Decimal Numbers, Square Roots, Distance between Two Points
    • 3.2: Variables and Algebraic Expressions
    • 3.3: Summation Notation
    • 3.4: Deviations from the Mean, Squared Deviations, Sum of Squared Deviations
    • 3.5: Evaluating Expressions

  • Chapter 4: Describing Bivariate Numerical Data—The Math You Need to Know
    • 4: Concept Explorations
    • 4.1: Review—Variables, Scatterplots, Linear and Nonlinear Patterns, z-Scores
    • 4.2: Working with Lines
    • 4.3: Linear Models and Using a Line to Make Predictions
    • 4.4: Deviations from a Line and the Sum of Squared Deviations
    • 4.5: The Least-Squares Line
    • 4.6: Evaluating Expressions

  • Chapter 5: Probability—The Math You Need to Know
    • 5.1: Review—Proportions, Decimal Numbers and Percentages, Ordering Decimal Numbers
    • 5.2: Sets and Set Notation
    • 5.3: Evaluating Expressions

  • Chapter 6: Random Variables and Probability Distributions—The Math You Need to Know
    • 6: Concept Explorations
    • 6.1: Review—Powers of Numbers, Square Roots, Intervals, Proportions, Decimals, Percentages, and z-Scores
    • 6.2: Random Variables
    • 6.3: More on Intervals
    • 6.4: Equations and Inequalities
    • 6.5: Areas Under a Curve
    • 6.6: Areas of Rectangles and Areas of Triangles
    • 6.7: Solving Simple Equations in One Variable
    • 6.8: Working with Factorials (Optional, for those covering the Binomial Distribution)
    • 6.9: Evaluating Expressions

  • Chapter MA: Midsemester Assessment
    • MA: Midsemester Assessment

  • Chapter 7: How to Read a Statistics Problem
    • 7.1: Chapter Overview
    • 7.2: A Strategy for Reading a Statistics Problem
    • 7.3: Guided Practice—Reading Statistics Problems
    • 7.4: On Your Own

  • Chapter 8: Estimating a Population Proportion—The Math You Know
    • 8: Concept Explorations
    • 8.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 8.2: Guided Practice—Margin of Error
    • 8.3: Guided Practice—Large-Sample Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
    • 8.4: Guided Practice—Determining Sample Size

  • Chapter 9: Testing Hypotheses About a Population Proportion—The Math You Need to Know
    • 9: Concept Explorations
    • 9.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 9.2: Guided Practice—Large-Sample Hypothesis Test for a Population Proportion

  • Chapter 10: Estimating a Difference in Two Proportions—The Math You Need to Know
    • 10: Concept Explorations
    • 10.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 10.2: Guided Practice—Large-Sample Confidence Interval for a Difference in Two Proportions

  • Chapter 11: Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Two Proportions—The Math You Need to Know
    • 11: Concept Explorations
    • 11.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 11.2: Guided Practice—Large-Sample Hypothesis Test for a Difference in Two Proportions

  • Chapter 12: Estimating a Population Mean—The Math You Need to Know
    • 12.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 12.2: Guided Practice—Margin of Error
    • 12.3: Guided Practice—Confidence Interval for a Population Mean
    • 12.4: Guided Practice—Determining Sample Size

  • Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses About a Population Mean—The Math You Need to Know
    • 13.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 13.2: Guided Practice—One-Sample Hypothesis Test for a Population Mean

  • Chapter 14: Estimating a Difference in Means Using Paired Samples—The Math You Need to Know
    • 14.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 14.2: Guided Practice—Confidence Interval for a Difference in Means—Paired Samples

  • Chapter 15: Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Means Using Paired Samples—The Math You Need to Know
    • 15.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 15.2: Guided Practice—Paired-Samples Hypothesis Test for a Difference in Means

  • Chapter 16: Estimating a Difference in Two Means Using Independent Samples—The Math You Need to Know
    • 16.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 16.2: Guided Practice—Two-Sample t Confidence Interval for a Difference in Means Using Independent Samples

  • Chapter 17: Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Two Means Using Independent Samples—The Math You Need to Know
    • 17.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 17.2: Guided Practice—Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Means Using Independent Samples

  • Chapter 18: Chi-Square Tests—The Math You Need to Know
    • 18: Concept Explorations
    • 18.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 18.2: Guided Practice—Chi-Square Tests

  • Chapter 19: Estimating and Testing Hypotheses About the Slope of a Population Regression Line—The Math You Need to Know
    • 19.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 19.2: Guided Practice—Confidence Interval for the Slope of a Population Regression Line
    • 19.3: Guided Practice—Testing Hypotheses About the Slope of a Population Regression Line

  • Chapter 20: Testing Hypotheses About More than Two Means—The Math You Need to Know
    • 20: Concept Explorations
    • 20.1: Evaluating Expressions
    • 20.2: Guided Practice—One-Way Analysis of Variance

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Chapter 2: Creating Graphical Displays—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 3: Measures of Center and Variability—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 4: Describing Bivariate Numerical Data—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 5: Probability—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 6: Random Variables and Probability Distributions—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 7: How to Read a Statistics Problem
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Chapter 8: Estimating a Population Proportion—The Math You Know
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Chapter 9: Testing Hypotheses About a Population Proportion—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 10: Estimating a Difference in Two Proportions—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 11: Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Two Proportions—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 12: Estimating a Population Mean—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses About a Population Mean—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 14: Estimating a Difference in Means Using Paired Samples—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 15: Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Means Using Paired Samples—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 16: Estimating a Difference in Two Means Using Independent Samples—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 17: Testing Hypotheses About a Difference in Two Means Using Independent Samples—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 18: Chi-Square Tests—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 19: Estimating and Testing Hypotheses About the Slope of a Population Regression Line—The Math You Need to Know
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Chapter 20: Testing Hypotheses About More than Two Means—The Math You Need to Know
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