Topic Number | Major Topic | Text Section | Subtopics |
1 |
Histograms |
3.1-3.4 | Definition |
| Drawing Histograms with Spreadsheets |
| Drawing Histograms with Minitab |
| Monte Carlo Experiments with Spreadsheets |
| Monte Carlo Experiments with Minitab |
| Handling Unequal Bin Sizes |
| The Bell Curve or Normal Histogram |
| Histograms for Other Distributions |
2 |
Descriptive Statistics |
3.2-3.3 | The Average |
3.4-3.7 | The Standard Deviation |
| The Median |
| The Interquartile Range |
| Descriptive Statistics with Spreadsheets |
| Descriptive Statistics with Minitab |
3 |
The Bell Curve or Normal Distribution |
4.1-4.3 | The Normal Approximation for Data |
4.4-4.5 | Percentiles |
18.3-18.4 | The Normal Approximation for Probability Histograms |
| Finding Percentiles with Spreadsheets |
| The Sample Mean Bell Curve |
18.5 | The Bell Curve Approximation for Proportions |
4 |
Correlation |
8.1 | The Scatter Diagram |
8.2-8.4, 9.1-9.5 | The Correlation Coefficient |
| Calculating Correlations with Spreadsheets |
5.4 | Calculating Correlations with Minitab |
5 |
Regression |
10.1-10.6 | The Regression Line |
11.1-12.4 | Error Measurement in Regression |
| Computing Slope and Intercept with Spreadsheets |
| Regression with Minitab |
| More Complicated Models |
6 |
Confidence Intervals |
21.1-21.5 | Confidence Intervals for Percentages |
23.1-23.4 | Confidence Intervals for Averages or Means |
| Computing Confidence Intervals with Spreadsheets |
| Comparing Two Proportions |
7 |
Tests of Significance |
26.1-26.5 | Test Statistics and Significance Levels |
26.6 | The t-Test |
27.1-27.2 | Comparing Two Sample Averages |
| Comparing Two Proportions |
| Tests of Significance with Spreadsheets |
| Tests of Significance with Minitab |
7 |
Tests of Independence |
28.1-28.5 | Chi-Square Tests |
| Computing Chi-Square Tests with Spreadsheets |
27.1-27.2 | Chi-Square Tests with Minitab |