Introduction

Exploring Data: Distributions

• histogram and stemplot, mean and median, quartile and boxplot, standard deviation
• normal distribution

Exploring Data: Relationships

• scatterplot, regression line
• correlation, least-squares regression

Data for Decisions

• sampling, survey, random sample
• observation versus experiment
• statistical inference, confidence

Probability: The Mathematics of Chance

• randomness, probability, probability model
• probability rules, expectation

Social Choice: The Impossible Dream

• social choice, voting, ballot
• majority rule
• Condorcet's method, plurality voting, Borda count, sequential pairwise voting, Hare system, approval voting
• Arrow's impossibility theorem

Information Science

• binary code, encoding and decoding
• error-correcting code
• data compression
• cryptography

Savings Models

• interests and growth
• savings models
• Consumer Price Indexes

The Economics of Resources

• growth of population
• consuming of nonrenewable resource
• sustaining renewable resource