Introductory Probability and Statistics: Applications for Forestry and Natural Sciences Book

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1 Statistics and Data: What do Numbers have to do with Trees? 1

2 Descriptive Statistics: Making Sense of Data 9

3 Probability: the Foundation of Statistics 35

4 Random Variables and Probability Distributions: Outcomes of Random Experiments 61

5 Some Discrete Probability Distributions: Describing Data that are Counted 79

6 Continuous Distributions and the Normal Distribution: Describing Data that are Measured 93

7 Sampling Distributions: The Foundation of Inference 111

8 Estimation: Determining the Value of Population Parameters 147

9 Tests of Hypotheses: Making Claims about Population Parameters 173

10 Goodness-of-fit and Test for Independence: Testing Distributions 201

11 Regression and Correlation: Relationships between Variables 217

12 Analysis of Variance: Testing Differences between Several Means 251

13 Sampling Methods and Design of Experiments: Collecting Data 277

14 Non-parametric Tests: Testing when Distributions are Unknown 287

15 Quality Control: Statistics for Production and Processing 305

Bibliography 317

Solutions to Odd-numbered Questions 321

Appendix A 349

Appendix B 385

Glossary 387

Index 401