Solutions Manual for Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life 4e by Jeff Bennett 0321890132

1. Speaking of Statistics.
What Is/Are Statistics.
Sampling.
Types of Statistical Study.
Should You Believe a Statistical Study?
Focus on Sociology: Does Daycare Breed Bullies?
Focus on Public Health: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy?

2. Measurement in Statistics.
Data Type and Levels of Measurement.
Dealing with Errors.
Uses of Percentages in Statistics.
Index Numbers.
Focus on Politics: Who Benefits from a Tax Cut?
Focus on Economics: Does the Consumer Price Index Really Measure Inflation?

3. Visual Displays of Data.
Frequency Tables.
Picturing Distributions of Data.
Graphics in the Media.
A Few Cautions about Graphics.
Focus on History: Can War Be Described with a Graph?
Focus on Environment: How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere?

4. Describing Data.
What is Average?
Shapes of Distributions.
Measures of Variation.
Focus on Stock Market: What’s Average about the Dow?
Focus on Economics: Are the Rich Getting Richer?

5. A Normal World.
What is Normal?
Properties of the Normal Distribution.
The Central Limit Theorem.
Focus on Education: What Do SAT Scores Mean?
Focus on Psychology: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents?

6. Probability in Statistics.
The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance.
Basics in Probability.
Probabilities with Large Numbers.
Combining Probabilities.
Focus on Social Science: Are Lotteries Fair?
Focus on Law: Is DNA Fingerprinting Reliable?

7. Correlation and Causality.
Seeking Correlation.
InterpretingCorrelations.
Best-Fit Lines and Prediction.
The Search for Causality.
Focus on Education: What Helps Children Read?
Focus on Public Health: What Do Disease Clusters Mean?

8. From Samples to Populations.
Sampling Distribution.
Estimating Population Means.
Estimating Population Proportions.
Focus on Media: Did NBC Lose $66 Million to a Nielsen Sampling Error?
Focus on Literature: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?

9. Hypothesis Testing.
Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing.
Setting Up Hypothesis Tests.
Hypothesis Tests for Population Means.
Hypothesis Testing: Further Considerations.
Hypothesis Testing: Population Proportions.
Focus on History: Where Did Statistics Begin?
Focus on Agriculture: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

10. Further Applications of Statistics.
Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy.
Statistical Paradoxes.
Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables.
Focus on Criminology: Can You Tell a Fraud When You See One?
Focus on Education: What Can a Fourth Grader Do with Statistics?

Epilogue.
Appendix: State Data.
Answers.
Index.