Authors: Robin Levine-Wissing, David Thiel
ISBN-13: 9780738601632, ISBN-10: 0738601632
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Research & Education Association
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: Third
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SEE ISBN: 978-0-7386-0790-0
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CHAPTER 1
SUCCEEDING IN AP STATISTICS
About The Advanced Placement Program
The AP Statistics Exam
About the Review Sections
Scoring the Exam
Scoring the Multiple-Choice Section
Scoring the Free-Response Questions
The Composite Score
Scores that Receive College Credit and/or Advanced
Placement
Studying for Your AP Examination
Test-Taking Tips
CHAPTER 2
EXPLORING DATA
Exploring Univariate Data
Standardized Scores (Z-Scores)
Exploring Bivariate Data
Exploring Categorical Data: Frequency Tables
Measures of Central Tendency
Range and Percentiles
Measures of Dispersion
Simplified Methods for Computing the Standard
Deviation and Variance
Sampling Error
CHAPTER 3
PLANNING A STUDY
Methods of Data Collection
Planning and Conducting Surveys
Planning and Conducting Experiments
CHAPTER 4
ANTICIPATING PATTERNS
Review of Laws of Large Numbers
Conditional Probabilities and Independence
Discrete Random Variables
Mathematical Expectation of Discrete Random Variables
Normal Distribution
Sampling Distributions
CHAPTER 5
STATISTICAL INFERENCES
Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Testing
Type I and Type II Errors
Hypothesis Testing-Single Sample
Hypothesis Testing for Two Populations