TY - BOOK AU - Almeda,Josefina Venegas AU - Capistrano,Therese Garcia AU - Sarte,Genelyn MaFerry TI - Elementary statistics SN - 9789715426374 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2010///] CY - Quezon City PB - University of the Philippines Press KW - Statistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1. Introduction; Basic concepts; Fields of statistics; Steps in a statistical inquiry; Chapter 2. Collection of data; Measurement; Data collection methods; The questionnaire; The Philippine statistical system; Chapter 3. Sampling and sampling techniques; Basic concepts; Methods of probability sampling; Methods of nonprobability sampling; Sample size determination; Chapter 4. Presentation of data; Textual presentation; Tabular presentation; Graphical presentation; Chapter 5. Organization of data; Raw data and array; Frequency distribution; Chapter 6. Measures of central tendency; Summation; The arithmetic mean; The median; The mode; Chapter 7. Measures of location; The percentiles; The quartiles; The declines; Chapter 8. Measures of dispersion; The range; The variance ad standard deviation; The coefficient of variation; Chapter 9. Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis; Symmetry and Skewness; Common measures of Skewness; Types of Kurtosis; Measure of Kurtosis; Chapter 10. Introduction to probability theory; Probabilistic models; Basic concepts of probability; Approaches to assigning probabilities; Rules of counting; Properties of a probability function; Conditional probability; Independent events; Random variables and distributions; Expected value of random variable; Common probability distributions; Chapter 11. Sampling distributions; Basic concepts; Central limit theorem; Sampling from the normal distribution; Chapter 12. Exploratory data analysis; Basic elements of exploratory data analysis; Stem-and-leaf display; Five number summaries; Boxplots; Chapter 13. Estimation: single population; Basic concepts of estimating population parameters; Point estimation of a parameter; Confidence interval for the mean; Confidence interval for the proportion; Confidence interval for the variance; Determining the sample size; Chapter 14. Estimation : two population; Basic concepts in selecting samples from two populations; Point estimation of the difference between two means and of the difference between two proporions; Point estimation of the ratio of two variances; Confidences interval for the differences of means; Confidence interval for the difference of proportions; Confidence interval for the ratio of two variances; Determining the sample sizes; Chapter 15. Tests of hypotheses : single population; Basic concepts in testing statistical hypotheses; Hypothesis tests for the mean; Hypothesis tests for the proportion; Hypothesis test for the variance; Chapter 16. Tests of hypotheses : two populations; Hypothesis tests for two means; Hypothesis tests for two proportions; Hypothesis tests for two variances; Chapter 17. Chi-square tests; Goodness-of-fit test; Test for independence; Chapter 18. Simple linear regression analysis; Correlation analysis; Simple linear regression model; Estimation using the method of least squares; Diagnostic checking ER -