A
mapping of concepts from the 10 topics covered in the course to the
appropriatte
portions of the book is given below.
- Topic 1 - Data collection and summarization
- Populations and samples - pages 6 - 8
- Frequency distributions - pages 16 - 19
- Histograms - pages 20 - 22
- Mean, median, variance and standard deviation - pages 28 - 32
- Quartiles, interquartile range - pages 33 - 35
- Boxplots - pages 35 - 37
- Topic 2 - Probability
- Basic probability - pages 65 - 74
- Conditional probability and independence - pages 78 - 84
- Bayes rule - pages 85 - 88
- Basic reliability - pages 549 - 551
- Topic 3 - Discrete distributions
- Topic 4 - Continuous distributions
- Topic 5 - Joint distributions and the CLT
- Topic 6 - Confidence intervals based on a single sample
- Sampling distribution of the sample mean - pages 216 - 218
- Sampling distribution of the sample variance - pages 218 - 220
- Confidence interval for a population mean - pages 231 - 235
- Confidence interval for a population variance - pages 281 - 283
- Confidence interval for a population proportion - pages 292 - 297
- Topic 7 - Hypothesis tests based on a single sample
- Sampling distribution of the sample mean - pages 216 - 218
- Basics of hypothesis testing - pages 238 - 244
- Hypothesis test for a population mean - pages 246 - 251
- Hypothesis test for a population proportion - pages 298 - 300
- Topic 8 - Comparing two samples
- Confidence intervals/hypothesis tests for two means - pages 260 - 269
- Hypothesis test for two variances - pages 286 - 288
- Confidence intervals/hypothesis tests for two proportions -
pages 304 - 306
- Topic 9 - ANOVA
- Topic 10 - Linear Regression
- Least squares principle - pages 337 - 344
- Hypothesis tests/confidence intervals/prediction intervals for
regression - pages 344 - 352