Part I: Producing Data
1. Where Do Data Come From?
2. Samples, Good and Bad
3. What Do Samples Tell Us?
4. Sample Surveys in the Real World
5. Experiments, Good and Bad
6. Experiments in the Real World
7. Data Ethics
8. Measuring
9. Do the Numbers Make Sense
Part I Review
Part II: Organizing Data
10. Graphs, Good and Bad
11. Displaying Distributions with Graphs
12. Describing Distributions with Numbers
13. Normal Distributions
14. Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation
15. Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation
16. The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics
Part II Review
Part III: Chance
17. Thinking about Chance
|18. Probability Models
19. Simulation
20. The House Edge: Expected Values
Part III Review
Part IV: Inference
21. What Is a Confidence Interval?
22. What Is a Test of Significance?
23. Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference
24. Two-Way Tables and the Chi-Square Test
Part IV Review