Smith G. Exercises and Solutions in Probability and Statistics 2025

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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.
Introduction.
Mean, Median, and Descriptive Statistics.
Graphs: Good, Bad, and Ugly.
Misleading Data.
Probabilities.
Bayes’ Rule.
Monty Hall Problems.
Binomial Distribution.
Law of Averages.
Normal Distribution.
One-Sample Tests and Confdence Intervals.
Two-Sample Tests and Confdence Intervals.
Chi-Square Tests.
Simple Regression.
Regression toward the Mean.
Multiple Regression.
Miscellaneous.
Out-of-Class Projects.
Index