Introduction to Statistics

Introduction to Statistics is designed to be extremely easy for students to understand and use. It is the ideal textbook for any Introductory Statistics unit that covers Descriptive and 1 & 2-Sample Inferential Statistics, including CHI-SQUARE Test for Independence plus Simple Linear & Multiple Linear Regression Every topic contains essential theory presented in a very concise and clear manner with plenty of examples followed by a wide variety of solved problems, a large and varied selection of supplementary questions, trial exam questions plus 5 trial exams with detailed solutions. The book also teaches students how to interpret computer outputs from a very popular statistical software package. The text book can also be used as a workbook. This feature encourages students to actually work through the questions themselves rather than just looking at the solutions. This aspect of the book has proven to be very popular with students. TOPICS 1 Data and Data Sets (classifying data: nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio, etc.) 2 Displaying Data (bar charts, pie charts, histograms, etc.) 3 Numerical Summaries (mean, median, mode, variance, etc.) 4 Relationships between two variables 5 Introduction to Probability 6 Probability Distributions (Binomial, Poisson, Normal) 7 Sampling & Sampling Distributions 8 Interval Estimation (1 sample & 2 sample) 9 Hypothesis Testing (1 sample) 10 Hypothesis Testing (2 sample) Including Chi-Square test for independence 11 Regression Analysis (Simple linear & Multiple linear) 12 Revision (5 Trial Exams & Detailed Solutions)