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Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version, 4th Edition is a shorter version of Allan Bluman’s popular text Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach, 6th edition. This softcover edition includes all the features of the longer book, but is designed for a course in which the time available limits the number of topics covered. The book is written for general beginning statistics courses with a basic algebra prerequisite. The book use a non-theoretical approach, explaining concepts intuitively and teaching problem solving through worked examples step-by-step.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER 1 The Nature of Probability and Statistics
- CHAPTER 2 Frequency Distributions and Graphs
- CHAPTER 3 Data Description
- CHAPTER 4 Probability and Counting Rules
- CHAPTER 5 Discrete Probability Distributions
- CHAPTER 6 The Normal Distribution
- CHAPTER 7 Confidence Intervals and Sample Size
- CHAPTER 8 Hypothesis Testing
- CHAPTER 9 Testing the Difference Between Two Means, Two Variances, and Two Proportions
- CHAPTER 10 Correlation and Regression
- CHAPTER 11 Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Appendix A Algebra Review
- Appendix B–1 Writing the Research Report
- Appendix B–2 Alternate Approach to the Standard Normal Distribution
- Appendix C Tables
- Appendix D Data Bank
- Appendix E Glossary
- Appendix F Bibliography
- Appendix G Photo Credits
- Instructor's Section
- Index

