PDF Files New and Enhanced Features Continued Features Table of Contents Supplements Introductory Stat's, 5/e and Elemetary Stat's, 4/e Comparison

PDF Files [ TOP ] NOTE: To see these files you will have to download Adobe Acrobat Reader. Preface Table of Contents New and Enhanced Features [ TOP ] New Case Studies: Throughout the text, Weiss includes new and revised Case Study Chapter Openers. These case studies are introduced at the beginning of the chapter and discussed at the end showing students the links between the subject matter and how the material can be used in real life. Integration of Technology: The integration of technology has now been expanded in this edition. Not only has the author integrated the latest version of Minitab® Rel. 12, but has now provided support for using the TI-83 graphing calculator and Excel spreadsheets. Exercises: Many new and revised exercises allow students to pursue questions that are conceptual in nature. More advanced problems require students to synthesize and interpret information. Many of the technology exercises use new and current data. Internet Projects: These new end-of-chapter projects lead students to use the Internet for data research and access to statistical simulations. Content Changes: Earlier chapters are streamlined so that the text is more easily adaptable for different length courses. Early coverage of descriptive methods in regression and correlation. Option for brief probability coverage. New chapter 13 on one-way ANOVA. Chapters on Regression, Correlation, and ANOVA are more introductory in nature. Modular chapters provide a more in-depth exploration of these topics, as well as Experimental Design. Continued Features [ TOP ] Step by Step Approach: Weiss takes a step by step approach to statistics covering topics, procedures, and techniques thoroughly and precisely. No assumptions are made as to students abilities, which ensures that they cover all need material. Data: In most examples and exercises, the author has presented raw data in addition to summary statistics. This gives a more realistic view of statistics and provides an opportunity for the problems to be solved by computer if desired. Data sets are available on disk in the back of the text. Table of Contents [ TOP ] PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: The Nature of Statistics 1.1 Two Kinds of Statistics 1.2 Classifying Statistical Studies 1.3 The Development of Statistics 1.4 Using the Computer* 1.5 Is a Study Necessary? 1.6 Simple Random Sampling 1.7 Other Sampling Procedures 1.8 Experimental Design Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography PART II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Chapter 2: Organizing Data 2.1 Variables and Data 2.2 Grouping Data 2.3 Graphs and Charts 2.4 Stem-and-Leaf Diagrams 2.5 Distribution Shapes; Symmetry and Skewness 2.6 Misleading Graphs Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 3: Descriptive Measures 3.1 Measures of Center 3.2 The Sample Mean 3.3 Measures of Variation; the Sample Standard Deviation 3.4 The Five-Number Summary; Boxplots 3.5 Descriptive Measures for Populations; Use of Samples Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 4: Descriptive Methods in Regression and Correlation 4.1 Linear Equations with One Independent Variable 4.2 The Regression Equation 4.3 The Coefficient of Determination 4.4 Linear Correlation Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography PART III PROBABILITY, RANDOM VARIABLES, AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS Chapter 5: Probability and Random Variables 5.1 Probability Basics 5.2 Events 5.3 Some Rules of Probability 5.4 Discrete Random Variables; Probability Distributions* 5.5 The Mean and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random Variable* 5.6 The Binomial Distribution* Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 6: The Normal Distribution 6.1 Introducing Normally Distributed Variables 6.2 Areas Under the Standard Normal Curve 6.3 Working With Normally Distributed Variables 6.4 Assessing Normality; Normal Probability Plots Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 7: The Sampling Distribution of the Mean 7.1 Sampling Error; the Need for Sampling Distributions 7.2 The Mean and Standard Deviation of x 7.3 The Sampling Distribution of the Mean Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography PART IV: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS Chapter 8: Confidence Intervals for One Population Mean 8.1 Estimating a Population Mean 8.2 Confidence Intervals for One Population Mean When o Is Known 8.3 Margin of Error 8.4 Confidence Intervals for One Population Mean When o Is Unknown Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 9: Hypothesis Testing for One Population Mean 9.1 The Nature of Hypothesis Testing 9.2 Terms, Errors, and Hypotheses 9.3 Hypothesis Tests for One Population Mean When o Is Known 9.4 P-Values 9.5 Hypothesis Tests for One Population Mean When o Is Unknown Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 10: Inferences for Two Population Means 10.1 The Sampling Distribution of the Difference Between Two Means for Independent Samples 10.2 Inferences for Two Population Means Using Independent Samples (Standard Deviations Assumed Equal) 10.3 Inferences for Two Population Means Using Independent Samples (Standard Deviations Not Assumed Equal) 10.4 Inferences for Two Population Means Using Paired Samples Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 11: Inferences for Population Proportions 11.1 Confidence Intervals for One Population Proportion 11.2 Hypothesis Tests for One Population Proportion 11.3 Inferences for Two Population Proportions Using Independent Samples Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 12: Chi-Squared Procedures 12.1 The Chi-Square Distribution 12.2 Chi-Square Goodness-Of-Fit Test 12.3 Contingency Tables; Association 12.4 Chi-Square Independence Test Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 13: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 13.1 The F-Distribution 13.2 One-Way ANOVA: The Logic 13.3 One-Way ANOVA: The Procedure Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography Chapter 14: Inferential Methods in Regression and Correlation 14.1 The Regression Model; Analysis of Residuals 14.2 Inferences for the Slope of the Population Regression Line 14.3 Estimation and Prediction 14.4 Inferences in Correlation Chapter Review, Review Test, Internet Project, Using the Focus Database, Case Study Discussion, Biography APPENDIXES Appendix A: Statistical Tables I Random numbers II Areas under the standard normal curves III Normal scores IV Values of V Values of VI Values of Appendix B: Answers to Selected Exercises Supplements [ TOP ] Student's Solutions Manual: 0-201-43714-7 Instructor's Solutions Manual: 0-201-59892-2 Printed Test Bank: 0-201-88325-2 PowerPoint Slides: 0-201-88323-6 Minitab Lab Manual: 0-201-88324-4 TI-83 Lab Manual: 0-201-39863-X TestGen EQ Win: 0-201-39864-8 TestGen EQ Mac: 0-201-39865-6 Data Sets CD: 0-201-88328-7 ActivStats 2.0: 0-201-31068-6 Introductory Stat's, 5/e and Elementary Stat's, 4/e Comparison [ TOP ] Following are the major differences between the books Introductory Statistics 5/e (IS5) and Elementary Statistics 4/e (ES4), both by Neil A. Weiss, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999. All material found in ES4 is also contained in IS5, but not conversely. Thus, ES4 may be considered an abridged version of IS5. ES4 does not contain a presentation of nonparametric methods, whereas IS5 does present these methods (see Section 9.7). The chapter on descriptive methods in regression and correlation occurs early in ES4 (Chapter 4). On the other hand, it occurs late in IS5 (Chapter 14). Note, however, that IS5 has been written so that Chapter 14 can be covered immediately after Chapter 3 ("Descriptive Measures"). And, similarly, ES4 has been written so that Chapter 4 can be covered later. In IS5 the material on probability and random variables is covered in two separate chapters (Chapters 4 and 5). But in ES4 that material is abridged and combined into a single chapter (Chapter 5). The following optional sections appear in IS5 but do not appear at all in ES4: Contingency Tables; Joint and Marginal Probabilities (Section 4.4 of IS5) Conditional Probability (Section 4.5 of IS5) The Multiplication Rule; Independence (Section 4.6 of IS5) Bayes's Rule (Section 4.7 of IS5) Counting Rules (Section 4.8 of IS5) The Poisson Distribution (Section 5.4 of IS5) Brief coverage (one or two class periods) of probability and random variables is available in both books. Optional sections are indicated with an asterisk. ES4 does not contain a section on the normal approximation to the binomial distribution, whereas IS5 does (Section 6.5). The following optional sections appear in the chapter on hypothesis tests for one population mean (Chapter 9) in IS5 but do not appear at all in ES4: Type II Error Probabilities; Power (Section 9.4 of IS5) The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test (Section 9.7 of IS5) Which Procedure Should be Used? (Section 9.8 of IS5) The following optional sections appear in the chapter on inferences for two population means (Chapter 10) in IS5 but do not appear at all in ES4: The Mann-Whitney Test (Section 10.4 of IS5) The Paired Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test (Section 10.6 of IS5) Which Procedure Should be Used? (Section 10.7 of IS5) ES4 does not contain a chapter on inferences for population standard deviations (or variances), whereas IS5 does (Chapter 11). ES4 does not contain a section on testing for normality, whereas IS5 does (Section 15.5). The following optional sections appear in the chapter on analysis of variance in IS5 but do not appear at all in ES4: Multiple Comparisons (Section 16.4 of IS5) The Kruskal-Wallis Test (Section 16.5 of IS5) BOOK HOME PAGE | COURSE SUCCESS | PROJECTS AND PRACTICE | DOWNLOAD AREA