Gallo M. Fundamentals of Statistics for Aviation Research 2023

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This is the first textbook designed to teach statistics to students in aviation courses. All examples and exercises are grounded in an aviation context, including flight instruction, air traffic control, airport management, and human factors.
Preface
PART A. Research and Statistics Basics
1 The General Nature of Research and Statistics
2 Organizing and Summarizing Data
PART B. Making Reasonable Decisions about a Population
3 Z Scores, the Standard Normal Distribution, and Sampling Distributions
4 The Concept of Statistical Inference
PART C. Analyzing Research Data Involving a Single Sample
5 Single-Sample t Test
Review Exercises 127
6 Examining Bivariate Relationships: Correlation
7 Examining Bivariate Relationships: Regression
PART D Analyzing Research Data Involving Two Independent Samples
8 Independent-Samples t Test
9 Single-Factor ANOVA
10 Factorial ANOVA
PART E. Analyzing Research Data Using a Within-Groups Design
11 Repeated-Measures.
PART F. Nonparametric Statistics: Working with Frequency Data
12 The Chi-Square Statistic