统计想象

Preface1 The Statistical Imagination2 Statisticval Analysis:Error Management and Control3 Charts and Graphs:A Picture Says a Thousand Words4 Measuring Averages5 Measuring Dispersion of Spread in a Distribution of Scores6 Probability Theory and the Normal Probability Distribution7 Using Probability Theory to Produce Sampling Distributions8 Parmeter Estimation Using Confidence Intervals9 Hypothesis Testing10 Single-Sample Hypotyesis Tests:Establishing the Representativeness of Samples11 Bivariate Relationships:t-Test for Comparing the Means of Two Groups12 Analysis of Varance:Differences among Means of Three of More Groups13 Nominal Variables:The Chi-Square and Binormial Distributions14 Correlationa and Regression:Part1:Concepts and Calcutions

Preface1 The Statistical Imagination2 Statisticval Analysis:Error Management and Control3 Charts and Graphs:A Picture Says a Thousand Words4 Measuring Averages5 Measuring Dispersion of Spread in a Distribution of Scores6 Probability Theory and the Normal Probability Distribution7 Using Probability Theory to Produce Sampling Distributions8 Parmeter Estimation Using Confidence Intervals9 Hypothesis Testing10 Single-Sample Hypotyesis Tests:Establishing the Representativeness of Samples11 Bivariate Relationships:t-Test for Comparing the Means of Two Groups12 Analysis of Varance:Differences among Means of Three of More Groups13 Nominal Variables:The Chi-Square and Binormial Distributions14 Correlationa and Regression:Part1:Concepts and Calcutions15 Correlation and Regression:Part2:Hypothesis Testing and Aspects of a Relationship16 Rand-Order Correlation between Two Ordinal VariablesAppendix A Review of Basic Mathematical OperationsAppendix B Staistical Probability TablesAppendix C Answers to Selected Chaper ExercisesReferencesIndex

本书篇幅适中，内容安排层次分明。作者以决策树形式归纳的统计方法和统计步骤，有助于读者对统计知识的梳理和掌握。此外，本书附有学生版SRSS统计软件和若干数据资料，可供读者结合所学，进行相应的操作练习，以便在学习统计原理的同时熟悉统计软件，在运用统计的过程中加深对统计知识的理解和认识。