Advanced High School Statistics
Advanced High School Statistics
by David M Diez, et al.
eBook Details:
Publisher: OpenIntro 2017
Number of pages: 458
License(s): CC-BY
eBook Description:
Statistics is an applied field with a wide range of practical applications. This book is geared to the high school audience and is specifically tailored to be aligned with the AP Statistics curriculum. It is already being used by many high schools and community colleges throughout the country.
The chapters of this book are as follows:
- Data collection. Data structures, variables, and basic data collection techniques.
- Summarizing data. Data summaries and graphics.
- Probability. The basic principles of probability.
- Distributions of random variables. Introduction to key distributions, and how the normal model applies to the sample mean and sample proportion.
- Foundation for inference. General ideas for statistical inference in the context of estimating the population proportion.
- Inference for categorical data. Inference for proportions using the normal and chisquare distributions.
- Inference for numerical data. Inference for one or two sample means using the t distribution, and comparisons of many means using ANOVA.
- Introduction to linear regression. An introduction to regression with two variables.
Instructions are also provided in several sections for using Casio and TI calculators.
