Download Important Formulas and more Lecture notes Calculus in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 3 Data Description Mean for individual data: Mean for grouped data: Standard deviation for a sample: or (Shortcut formula) Standard deviation for grouped data: Range rule of thumb: Chapter 4 Probability and Counting Rules Addition rule 1 (mutually exclusive events): P(A or B) P(A) P(B) Addition rule 2 (events not mutually exclusive): P(A or B) P(A) P(B) P(A and B) Multiplication rule 1 (independent events): P(A and B) P(A) P(B) Multiplication rule 2 (dependent events): P(A and B) P(A) P(B A) Conditional probability: Complementary events: P( ) 1 P(E) Fundamental counting rule: Total number of outcomes of a sequence when each event has a different number of possibilities: k1 k 2 k 3 kn Permutation rule: Number of permutations of n objects taking r at a time is Combination rule: Number of combinations of r objects selected from n objects is nCr n! n r!r! n Pr n! n r! E PB A PA and B PA s range 4 s n f • X 2 m f • Xm 2 nn 1 s nX 2 X2 nn 1 s X X 2 n 1 X f • Xm n X X n Chapter 5 Discrete Probability Distributions Mean for a probability distribution: m [X P(X)] Variance and standard deviation for a probability distribution: s2 [X2 P(X)] m2 Expectation: E(X) [X P(X)] Binomial probability: Mean for binomial distribution: m n p Variance and standard deviation for the binomial distribution: s2 n p q s Multinomial probability: Poisson probability: P(X; l) where X 0, 1, 2, . . . Hypergeometric probability: Chapter 6 The Normal Distribution Standard score Mean of sample means: mX m Standard error of the mean: sX Central limit theorem formula: Chapter 7 Confidence Intervals and Sample Size z confidence interval for means: t confidence interval for means: Sample size for means: where E is the maximum error of estimate Confidence interval for a proportion: p̂ z 2 p̂ q̂ n p p̂ z 2 p̂ q̂ n n z 2 • E 2 X t 2 s n X t 2 s n X z 2 n X z 2 n z X n n z X or z X X s PX aCX • bCnX abCn e X X! PX n! X1!X2!X3! . . . Xk! • pX1 1 • pX2 2 • pX3 3 • • • pXk k n • p • q PX n! n X!X! • pX • q nX s [X 2 • PX] m2 Important Formulas blu38582_IF_1-8.qxd 9/27/10 9:19 PM Page 1 Sample size for a proportion: where Confidence interval for variance: Confidence interval for standard deviation: Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing z test: for any value n. If n 30, population must be normally distributed. t test: (d.f. n 1) z test for proportions: Chi-square test for a single variance: (d.f. n 1) Chapter 9 Testing the Difference Between Two Means, Two Proportions, and Two Variances z test for comparing two means (independent samples): Formula for the confidence interval for difference of two means (large samples): t test for comparing two means (independent samples, variances not equal): (d.f. the smaller of n1 1 or n2 1) t X 1 X 2 1 2 s2 1 n1 s2 2 n2 X 1 X 2 z 2 2 1 n1 2 2 n2 X 1 X 2 z 2 2 1 n1 2 2 n2 1 2 z X 1 X 2 1 2 1 2 n1 2 2 n2 2 n 1s2 2 z p̂ p pq n t X s n z X n n 1s2 2 right n 1s2 2 left n 1s2 2 right 2 n 1s2 2 left p̂ X n and q̂ 1 p̂ n p̂q̂ z 2 E 2 Formula for the confidence interval for difference of two means (small independent samples, variance unequal): (d.f. smaller of n1 1 and n2 1) t test for comparing two means for dependent samples: Formula for confidence interval for the mean of the difference for dependent samples: (d.f. n 1) z test for comparing two proportions: where Formula for the confidence interval for the difference of two proportions: F test for comparing two variances: where is the larger variance and d.f.N. n1 1, d.f.D. n2 1 s2 1F s2 1 s2 2 p̂1 p̂2 z 2 p̂1q̂1 n1 p̂2q̂2 n2 p̂1 p̂2 z 2 p̂1q̂1 n1 p̂2q̂2 n2 p1 p2 q _ 1 p _ p̂2 X2 n2 p _ X1 X2 n1 n2 p̂1 X1 n1 z p̂1 p̂2 p1 p2 p _ q _ 1 n1 1 n2 D t 2 SD n D D t 2 SD n sD nD 2 D2 nn 1 d.f. n 1 t D D sD n where D D n and X 1 X 2 t 2 s2 1 n1 s2 2 n2 X 1 X 2 t 2 s2 1 n1 s2 2 n2 1 2 blu38582_IF_1-8.qxd 9/27/10 9:19 PM Page 2