General Statistics, Fourth Edition

General Statistics presents a complete first course in statistics appropriate for students enrolled in a wide variety of disciplines. This mainstream, mid-level text offers non majors, in as precise and accurate manner as possible, the basic ideas of descriptive and inferential statistics. The new Fourth Edition retains many of the features and coverage that made the previous editions so successful, while incorporating additional real data sets, better, updated exercises that enhance students' decision-making skills, and more computer spreadsheet output for illustrating statistical concepts and ideas.

This text is appropriate for any one-semester, introductory statistics course at both four year and junior colleges.

Warren Chase, Framingham State College
Fred Bown, Framingham State College

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS.

Organizing and Describing Data.

Descriptive Methods for Regression and Correlation.

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS.

Probability (Optional).

Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables.

Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables;
The Normal Distribution.

STATISTICAL INFERENCE.

Statistical Inference Concerning Means and Proportions.

Inference Concerning Two Population Parameters.

Inference Concerning Regression and Correlation.

Analysis of Variance.

Analysis of Categorical Data.

Nonparametric Statistics.

Appendices.

Answers.

Index.