Exercises and Solutions in Probability and Statistics

Hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises with solutions that test student understanding of the material. Many of which are educational in their own right-for example, stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average generally do better than the stocks that replaced them.

The book contains hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises (and detailed solutions) that test students' understanding of the material. Many are educational in their own right-for example, baseball managers who played professional ball were often catchers; stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average have generally done better than the stocks that replaced them; athletes may not get hot hands but they often get warm hands with modest improvements in their success probabilities.

Autorentext

Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He has won two teaching awards and written (or co-authored) more than 100 academic papers and 20 books. His statistical and financial research has been featured in various media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, NPR Tech Nation, NBC Bay Area, CNBC, WYNC, WBBR Bloomberg Radio, NBC Think, Silicon Valley Insider, Motley Fool, Scientific American, Forbes, MarketWatch, MoneyCentral.msn, NewsWeek, Fast Company, The Economist, MindMatters, OZY, Slate, and BusinessWeek.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Mean, Median, Descriptive Statistics 2. Graphs Good, Bad, and Ugly 3. Misleading Data 4. Probabilities 5. Bayes' Rule 6. Monty Hall Problems 7. Binomial Distribution 8. Law of Averages 9. Normal Distribution 10. One-Sample Tests and CIs 11. Two-Sample Tests and CIs 12. Chi-Square Tests 13. Simple Regression 14. Regression Toward the Mean 15. Multiple Regression 16. Miscellaneous 17. Out-of-Class Projects