Elementary Statistics: A Step By Step Approach ISE

Allan G. Bluman is a professor emeritus at the Community College of Allegheny County, South Campus, near Pittsburgh. He has taught mathematics and statistics for over 35 years. He received an Apple for the Teacher award in recognition of his bringing excellence to the learning environment at South Campus. He has also taught statistics for Penn State University at the Greater Allegheny (McKeesport) Campus and at the Monroeville Center. He received his master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach (Eighth Edition ©2012) and Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version (Fifth Edition ©2010), Al is a co-author on a liberal arts mathematics text published by McGraw-Hill, Math in Our World (2nd Edition ©2011). Al also the author of for mathematics books in the McGraw-Hill DeMystified Series. They are Pre-Algebra, Math Word Problems, Business Math, and Probability. Al Bluman is married and has two sons and a granddaughter.

• CHAPTER 1: The Nature of Probability and StatisticsCHAPTER 2: Frequency Distributions and GraphsCHAPTER 3: Data DescriptionCHAPTER 4: Probability and Counting RulesCHAPTER 5: Discrete Probability DistributionsCHAPTER 6: The Normal DistributionCHAPTER 7: Confidence Intervals and Sample SizeCHAPTER 8: Hypothesis TestingCHAPTER 9: Testing the Difference Between Two Means, Two Proportions, and Two VariancesCHAPTER 10: Correlation and RegressionCHAPTER 11: Other Chi-Square TestsCHAPTER 12: Analysis of VarianceCHAPTER 13: Nonparametric StatisticsCHAPTER 14: Sampling and Simulation