Preface 24
First Things First 33
1 Defining and Collecting Data 48
2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables 73
3 Numerical Descriptive Measures 152
4 Basic Probability 200
5 Discrete Probability Distributions 231
6 The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions 255
7 Sampling Distributions 284
8 Confidence Interval Estimation 307
9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests 343
10 Two-Sample Tests 383
11 Analysis of Variance 430
12 Chi-Square and Nonparametric Tests 472
13 Simple Linear Regression 516
14 Introduction to Multiple Regression 568
15 Multiple Regression Model Building 624
16 Time-Series Forecasting 661
17 Business Analytics 710
18 Getting Ready to Analyze Data in the Future 736
19 Statistical Applications in Quality Management (online) 19-1
20 Decision Making (online) 20-1
Appendices A-H 743
Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Selected Even-Numbered
Problems 793
Index 825
Credits 837