Loose Leaf Version for Elementary Statistics

by Barry Monk, William Navidi

Overview

Elementary Statistics, 4e was developed around three central themes – Clarity, Quality, and Accuracy. The authors paid close attention to how material is presented to students, ensuring that the content in the text is very clear, concise, and digestible. High quality exercises, examples, and integration of technology are important aspects of an introductory statistics text. The authors have provided robust exercise sets that range in difficulty. They have also focused keen attention to ensure that examples provide clear instruction to students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264136407
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/19/2021
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	848
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Barry Monk received a B.S. in mathematical statistics, an M.A. in mathematics specializing in optimization and statistics, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, all from the University of Alabama. Dr. Monk is a professor of mathematics at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia, where he has been employed since 2001. Dr. Monk was asked to serve as program coordinator of mathematics after only two years at Macon State College; he led the development of the bachelor's degree in mathematics program and the organization of the Southeastern Scholarship Conference on E-Learning for more than 10 years. He has been teaching introductory statistics since 1992 in the classroom and online.

William Navidi received a B.A. in mathematics from New College, an M.A in mathematics from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Navidi is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He began his teaching career at the County College of Morris in Dover, New Jersey. He has taught mathematics and statistics at all levels, from developmental through the graduate level. Dr. Navidi has written two engineering statistics textbooks for McGraw-Hill and has authored more than 50 research papers, both in statistical theory and in a wide variety of applications, including computer networks, epidemiology, molecular biology, chemical engineering, and geophysics.

Table of Contents

1 Basic Ideas2 Graphical Summaries of Data
3 Numerical Summaries of Data
4 Summarizing Bivariate Data
5 Probability
6 Discrete Probability Distributions
7 The Normal Distribution
8 Confidence Intervals
9 Hypothesis Testing
10 Two-Sample Confidence Intervals
11 Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests
12 Tests with Qualitative Data
13 Inference in Linear Models
14 Analysis of Variance
15 Nonparametric Statistics