Solution Manual for Introduction to Probability and Statistics 13th Edition by William Mendenhall
Solution Manual for Introduction to Probability and Statistics 13th Edition by William Mendenhall
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- List of Applications
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: Train Your Brain for Statistics
- THE POPULATION AND THE SAMPLE
- DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
- ACHIEVING THE OBJECTIVE OF INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: THE NECESSARY STEPS
- TRAINING YOUR BRAIN FOR STATISTICS
- Chapter 1: Describing Data with Graphs
- 1.1: VARIABLES AND DATA
- 1.2: TYPES OF VARIABLES
- 1.3: GRAPHS FOR CATEGORICAL DATA
- 1.4: GRAPHS FOR QUANTITATIVE DATA
- 1.5: RELATIVE FREQUENCY HISTOGRAMS
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: How Is Your Blood Pressure?
- Chapter 2: Describing Data with Numerical Measures
- 2.1: DESCRIBING A SET OF DATA WITH NUMERICAL MEASURES
- 2.2: MEASURES OF CENTER
- 2.3: MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
- 2.4: ON THE PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STANDARD DEVIATION
- 2.5: A CHECK ON THE CALCULATION OF s
- 2.6: MEASURES OF RELATIVE STANDING
- 2.7: THE FIVE-NUMBER SUMMARY AND THE BOX PLOT
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: The Boys of Summer
- Chapter 3: Describing Bivariate Data
- 3.1: BIVARIATE DATA
- 3.2: GRAPHS FOR QUALITATIVE VARIABLES
- 3.3: SCATTERPLOTS FOR TWO QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES
- 3.4: NUMERICAL MEASURES FOR QUANTITATIVE BIVARIATE DATA
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: Are Your Dishes Really Clean?
- Chapter 4: Probability and Probability Distributions
- 4.1: THE ROLE OF PROBABILITY IN STATISTICS
- 4.2: EVENTS AND THE SAMPLE SPACE
- 4.3: CALCULATING PROBABILITIES USING SIMPLE EVENTS
- 4.4: USEFUL COUNTING RULES (OPTIONAL)
- 4.5: EVENT RELATIONS AND PROBABILITY RULES
- 4.6: INDEPENDENCE, CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY, AND THE MULTIPLICATION RULE
- 4.7: BAYES’ RULE (OPTIONAL)
- 4.8: DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES AND THEIR PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: Probability and Decision Making in the Congo
- Chapter 5: Several Useful Discrete Distributions
- 5.1: INTRODUCTION
- 5.2: THE BINOMIAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
- 5.3: THE POISSON PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
- 5.4: THE HYPERGEOMETRIC PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: A Mystery: Cancers Near a Reactor
- Chapter 6: The Normal Probability Distribution
- 6.1: PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES
- 6.2: THE NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
- 6.3: TABULATED AREAS OF THE NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
- 6.4: THE NORMAL APPROXIMATION TO THE BINOMIAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION (OPTIONAL)
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: The Long and Short of It
- Chapter 7: Sampling Distributions
- 7.1: INTRODUCTION
- 7.2: SAMPLING PLANS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS
- 7.3: STATISTICS AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS
- 7.4: THE CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM
- 7.5: THE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAMPLE MEAN
- 7.6: THE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAMPLE PROPORTION
- 7.7: A SAMPLING APPLICATION: STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (OPTIONAL)
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: Sampling the Roulette at Monte Carlo
- Chapter 8: Large-Sample Estimation
- 8.1: WHERE WE’VE BEEN
- 8.2: WHERE WE’RE GOING—STATISTICAL INFERENCE
- 8.3: TYPES OF ESTIMATORS
- 8.4: POINT ESTIMATION
- 8.5: INTERVAL ESTIMATION
- 8.6: ESTIMATING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO POPULATION MEANS
- 8.7: ESTIMATING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO BINOMIAL PROPORTIONS
- 8.8: ONE-SIDED CONFIDENCE BOUNDS
- 8.9: CHOOSING THE SAMPLE SIZE
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: How Reliable Is That Poll? CBS News: How and Where America Eats
- Chapter 9: Large-Sample Tests of Hypotheses
- 9.1: TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT POPULATION PARAMETERS
- 9.2: A STATISTICAL TEST OF HYPOTHESIS
- 9.3: A LARGE-SAMPLE TEST ABOUT A POPULATION MEAN
- 9.4: A LARGE-SAMPLE TEST OF HYPOTHESIS FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO POPULATION MEANS
- 9.5: A LARGE-SAMPLE TEST OF HYPOTHESIS FOR A BINOMIAL PROPORTION
- 9.6: A LARGE-SAMPLE TEST OF HYPOTHESIS FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO BINOMIAL PROPORTIONS
- 9.7: SOME COMMENTS ON TESTING HYPOTHESES
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: An Aspirin a Day . . . ?
- Chapter 10: Inference from Small Samples
- 10.1: INTRODUCTION
- 10.2: STUDENT’S t DISTRIBUTION
- 10.3: SMALL-SAMPLE INFERENCES CONCERNING A POPULATION MEAN
- 10.4: SMALL-SAMPLE INFERENCES FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO POPULATION MEANS: INDEPENDENT RANDOM SA
- 10.5: SMALL-SAMPLE INFERENCES FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS: A PAIRED-DIFFERENCE TEST
- 10.6: INFERENCES CONCERNING A POPULATION VARIANCE
- 10.7: COMPARING TWO POPULATION VARIANCES
- 10.8: REVISITING THE SMALL-SAMPLE ASSUMPTIONS
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: How Would You Like a Four-Day Workweek?
- Chapter 11: The Analysis of Variance
- 11.1: THE DESIGN OF AN EXPERIMENT
- 11.2: WHAT IS AN ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE?
- 11.3: THE ASSUMPTIONS FOR AN ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
- 11.4: THE COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED DESIGN: A ONE-WAY CLASSIFICATION
- 11.5: THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR A COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED DESIGN
- 11.6: RANKING POPULATION MEANS
- 11.7: THE RANDOMIZED BLOCK DESIGN: A TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION
- 11.8: THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR A RANDOMIZED BLOCK DESIGN
- 11.9: THE a x b FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT: A TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION
- 11.10: THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR AN a x b FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT
- 11.11: REVISITING THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE ASSUMPTIONS
- 11.12: A BRIEF SUMMARY
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: “A Fine Mess”
- Chapter 12: Linear Regression and Correlation
- 12.1: INTRODUCTION
- 12.2: A SIMPLE LINEAR PROBABILISTIC MODEL
- 12.3: THE METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES
- 12.4: AN ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR LINEAR REGRESSION
- 12.5: TESTING THE USEFULNESS OF THE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL
- 12.6: DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR CHECKING THE REGRESSION ASSUMPTIONS
- 12.7: ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION USING THE FITTED LINE
- 12.8: CORRELATION ANALYSIS
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: Is Your Car “Made in the U.S.A.”?
- Chapter 13: Multiple Regression Analysis
- 13.1: INTRODUCTION
- 13.2: THE MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL
- 13.3: A MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- 13.4: A POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL
- 13.5: USING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE PREDICTOR VARIABLES IN A REGRESSION MODEL
- 13.6: TESTING SETS OF REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS
- 13.7: INTERPRETING RESIDUAL PLOTS
- 13.8: STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- 13.9: MISINTERPRETING A REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- 13.10: STEPS TO FOLLOW WHEN BUILDING A MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: “Made in the U.S.A.”—Another Look
- Chapter 14: Analysis of Categorical Data
- 14.1: A DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIMENT
- 14.2: PEARSON’S CHI-SQUARE STATISTIC
- 14.3: TESTING SPECIFIED CELL PROBABILITIES: THE GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST
- 14.4: CONTINGENCY TABLES: A TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION
- 14.5: COMPARING SEVERAL MULTINOMIAL POPULATIONS: A TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION WITH FIXED ROW OR COLUMN T
- 14.6: THE EQUIVALENCE OF STATISTICAL TESTS
- 14.7: OTHER APPLICATIONS OF THE CHI-SQUARE TEST
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: Can a Marketing Approach Improve Library Services?
- Chapter 15: Nonparametric Statistics
- 15.1: INTRODUCTION
- 15.2: THE WILCOXON RANK SUM TEST: INDEPENDENT RANDOM SAMPLES
- 15.3: THE SIGN TEST FOR A PAIRED EXPERIMENT
- 15.4: A COMPARISON OF STATISTICAL TESTS
- 15.5: THE WILCOXON SIGNED-RANK TEST FOR A PAIRED EXPERIMENT
- 15.6: THE KRUSKAL–WALLIS H-TEST FOR COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED DESIGNS
- 15.7: THE FRIEDMAN Fr-TEST FOR RANDOMIZED BLOCK DESIGNS
- 15.8: RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
- 15.9: SUMMARY
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- CASE STUDY: How’s Your Cholesterol Level?
- Appendix I: Tables
- Data Sources
- Answers to Selected Exercises
- Index
- Credits
- Answers to MyPersonal Trainer Exercises
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