Introduction 1Part 1: The Questions 5Chapter 1: Basic Vocabulary 7Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics 11Chapter 3: Graphing 21Chapter 4: Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution 33Chapter 5: The Normal Distribution 43Chapter 6: The t-Distribution 51Chapter 7: Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem 57Chapter 8: Finding Room for a Margin of Error 71Chapter 9: Confidence Intervals: Basics for Single Population Means and Proportions 75Chapter 10: Confidence Intervals for Two Population Means and Proportions 91Chapter 11: Claims, Tests, and Conclusions 97Chapter 12: Hypothesis Testing Basics for a Single Population Mean: z- and t-Tests 105Chapter 13: Hypothesis Tests for One Proportion, Two Proportions, or Two Population Means 117Chapter 14: Surveys 127Chapter 15: Correlation 131Chapter 16: Simple Linear Regression 139Chapter 17: Two-Way Tables and Independence 153Part 2: The Answers 165Chapter 18: Answers 167Appendix: Tables for Reference 463Index 475
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