Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Global Edition, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (March 13, 2024) © 2024

  • Ron Larson Penn State Behrend
  • Betsy Farber Bucks County Community College
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Title overview

Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World describes the world through statistics using stepped-out instruction, extensive real-life examples and exercises, and design that fits content to each page makes the material more digestible. The authors' combination of theory, teaching and learning aids, and design helps you understand concepts and use statistics to describe and think about our world.

Table of contents

  • I. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
  • 1. Introduction to Statistics
  • 2. Descriptive Statistics 
  • II. PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
  • 3. Probability 
  • 4. Discrete Probability Distributions 
  • 5. Normal Probability Distributions 
  • III. STATISTICAL INFERENCE
  • 6. Confidence Intervals
  • 7. Hypothesis Testing with One Sample
  • 8. Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples
  • IV. MORE STATISTICAL INFERENCE
  • 9. Correlation and Regression  
  • 10. Chi-Square Tests and the F-Distribution
  • 11. Nonparametric Tests (Online Only)*
  • Appendix A:  Alternative Presentation of the Standard Normal Distribution 
  • Appendix B:  Tables
  • Appendix C: Normal Probability Plots 
  • Appendix D: Key Formulas
  • Answers to the Try It Yourself Exercises
  • Answers to the Odd-Numbered Exercises
  • Index

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