Weather-Related Delays: Due to severe weather conditions across the United States, our print book shipments are currently experiencing delays. Reduced staffing at the printing facilities and disruptions to UPS and USPS delivery services are affecting order fulfillment and transit times. If you have questions about a specific order, please use the blue chat bubble and speak to our customer service team.
Request an Examination Copy
FlatWorld offers examination copies of our textbooks to educators at no cost.
Textbook Details
By Douglas S. Shafer and Zhiyi Zhang
- Published
- September 2018
- Discipline
- Math & Statistics Textbooks
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-8895-2
Introductory Statistics: A First Course provides a concise, coherent explanation of introductory statistics topics that caters to the needs of general education students in standard one-semester introductory courses. This text ensures student comprehension by focusing on important core concepts and using a variety of exercises and examples to illustrate topics covered. As a result, Introductory Statistics: A First Course provides a low-cost, high-quality alternative to existing options on the market.
Brief Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics
- Chapter 3: Basic Concepts of Probability
- Chapter 4: Discrete Random Variables
- Chapter 5: Continuous Random Variables
- Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions
- Chapter 7: Estimation
- Chapter 8: Testing Hypotheses
- Chapter 9: Two-Sample Problems
- Chapter 10: Correlation and Regression
- Chapter 11: Chi-Square Tests and F-Tests
- Appendix A: Appendix