Table of Contents

1. Picturing Distributions with Graphs.- 2. Describing Distributions with Numbers.- 3. Scatterplots and Correlation.- 4. Regression.- 5. Two-Way Tables.- 6. Exploring Data: Part I Review.- 7. Samples and Observational Studies.- 8. Designing Experiments.- 9. Introducing Probability.- 10. General Rules of Probability.- 11. The Normal Distributions.- 12. Discrete Probability Distributions.- 13. Sampling Distributions.- 14. Introduction to Inference.- 15. Inference in Practice.- 16. From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review.- 17. Inference about a Population Mean.- 18. Comparing Two Means.- 19. Inference about a Population Proportion.- 20. Comparing Two Proportions.- 21. The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit.- 22. The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables.- 23. Inference for Regression.- 24. One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means.- 25. Inference: Part III Review.- Optional Companion Chapters (available at www.whfreeman.com/psls3e).- 26. More about Analysis of Variance: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA.- 27. Nonparametric Tests.- 28. Multiple Regression.

About the Author

Brigitte Baldi is a lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Irvine. She was a local and later national advisor in the development of the statistics telecourse Statistically Speaking, and developed UCI's first online statistics courses.

David S. Moore is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Purdue University, USA, and was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association. He received his AB from Princeton and his PhD from Cornell, both in mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as program director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. In recent years, Professor Moore has devoted his attention to the teaching of statistics. He was the content developer for the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting college-level telecourse Against All Odds: Inside Statistics and for the series of video modules Statistics: Decisions through Data, intended to aid the teaching of statistics in schools. He is the author of influential articles on statistics education and of several leading texts. Professor Moore has served as president of the International Association for Statistical Education and has received the Mathematical Association of America's national award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics.