目 录
1. Data and Statistics 3
1.1 Data 4
1.2 Data Source: 6
1.3 Descriptive Statistics: 7
1.4 Statistical Inference: 8
2. Descriptive Statistics: Table and Graph 10
2.1 Summarizing Qualitative Data: 11
2.2 Summarizing Quantitative Data: 14
2.3 Exploratory Data Analysis: 18
3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods 19
3.1 Measure of Location: 20
3.2 Measure of Dispersion: 23
3.3 Exploratory Data Analysis: 28
3.4 Measures of Relative Location: 30
3.5 The Weighted Mean and Grouped Data: 34
4 .Association Between Two Variables 38
4.1 Crosstabulations and Scatter Diagrams: 39
4.2 Numerical Measures of Association: 41
5. Introduction to Probability 45
5.1. Experiments, Counting Rules, and Probabilities 45
5.2. Events and Their Probability 52
5.3. Some Basic Relationships of Probability 54
5.4. Conditional Probability 57
5.5. Bayes’ Theorem 61
6. Probability Distribution 66
6.1. Random Variable 66
6.2. Probability Distribution 69
6.3. Expected Value and Variance: 73
7. Discrete Distribution 82
7.1. The Binomial Probability Distribution 82
7.2. The Poisson Probability Distribution: 90
7.3. The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution: 94
8. Continuous Density 97
8.1. The Uniform Probability Density: 97
8.2. The Normal Probability Density 100
8.3 The Exponential Density: 106
8.4 Appendix: Poisson and Normal Approximations 110
9. Sampling and Sampling Distribution 114
9.1 Simple Random Sampling and Point Estimate 115
9.2. Sampling Distributions 118
9.3. Other Sampling Methods 129
10. Interval Estimation 132
10.1. Population Mean: Large Sample Case 133
10.2. Population Mean: Small Sample Case 139
10.3. Determining the Sample Size 143
10.4. Population Proportion 146
11.Hypothesis Testing 150
11.1 Type I and Type II Errors 152
11.2 One-Tailed Tests about a Population Mean: Large Sample Case 156
11.3 Modern Approach: P-value 161
11.4 Two-Tailed Tests about a Population Mean: Large Sample Case 166
11.5 Tests about a Population Mean: Small Sample Case 175
11.6 Tests about a Population Proportion 181
12. Comparisons Involving Means 188
12.1 Estimation of the Difference between the Means 189
12.2 Hypothesis Test about the Difference 196
12.3 Inference About the Difference: Match Samples 208
12.4 An Introduction to Analysis of Variance 215
12.5 Analysis of Variance: F test 221
13.Comparisons Involving Proportions 225
13.1 Estimation the Difference between the Proportions of Two Populations 226
13.2 Hypothesis Testing: 229
13.3 Hypothesis Test: Multinomial Population 233
13.4 Test of Independence: Contingency Tables 239
14.Regression Analysis 247
14.1 Least Squares Method 249
14.2 Testing for Significance 255
14.3 Coefficient of Determination ( ), Correlation and Regression 266
14.4 Prediction 271
14.5 Residuals 274
14.6 Multiple Regression 282