Intro Stats Readiness Bootcamp 1st edition

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• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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