MANUAL
E LEMENTARY S TATISTICS
P ICTURING THE W ORLD
EIGHTH EDITION
RON LARSON
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
THE BEHREND COLLEGE
, CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics 1
Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics 14
Chapter 3 Probability 105
Chapter 4 Discrete Probability Distributions 140
Chapter 5 Normal Probability Distributions 173
Chapter 6 Confidence Intervals 226
Chapter 7 Hypothesis Testing with One Sample 255
Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples 308
Chapter 9 Correlation and Regression 355
Chapter 10 Chi-Square Tests and the F-Distribution 407
Chapter 11 Nonparametric Tests 466
Chapter 6 Alternate (Online) Confidence Intervals 517
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Appendix A Alternative Presentation of the Standard 546
Normal Distribution
Appendix C Normal Probability Plots 547
Activities 548
Case Studies 557
Uses and Abuses 584
Real StatisticsíReal Decisions 596
Technology 611