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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Treatment of Data Using EXCEL, MINITAB, SAS, SPSS, and STATISTIX | |
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Graphical Displays of Data | |
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Descriptive Measures of Data | |
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Measures of Relative Standing | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Probability | |
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Sample Space, Events, and Operations on Events | |
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The Multiplicative Rule, Permutations, and Combinations | |
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Probability | |
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The Axioms of Probability | |
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Some Elementary Theorems (Rules) of Probability | |
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Conditional Probability | |
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Bayes' Theorem | |
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Mathematical Expectation | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables | |
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Random Variables | |
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The Mean and Standard Deviation of a Probability Distribution | |
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Chebyshev's Theorem | |
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The Binomial Distribution | |
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The Hypergeometric Distribution | |
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The Geometric Distribution | |
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The Negative Binomial Distribution | |
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The Poisson Distribution | |
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The Multinomial Distribution | |
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Simulation | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Probability Densities for Continuous Random Variables and Introduction to MAPLE | |
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Continuous Random Variables | |
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The Normal Distribution | |
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The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
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The Uniform Distribution | |
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The Log-Normal Distribution | |
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The Gamma Distribution | |
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The Beta Distribution | |
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The Weibull Distribution | |
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Joint Distributions-Discrete and Continuous | |
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Checking Data for Normality | |
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Transforming Observations to Near Normality | |
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Simulation | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Sampling Distributions | |
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Populations and Samples | |
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The Sampling Distribution of the Mean ([sigma] Known) | |
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The Sampling Distribution of the Mean ([sigma] Unknown) | |
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The Sampling Distribution of the Proportion | |
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The Sampling Distribution of the Variance | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Inferences Concerning Means | |
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Point Estimation | |
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Interval Estimation | |
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Basic Concepts of Testing Hypotheses | |
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Testing Hypothesis About a Single Mean | |
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The Relationship between Tests of Hypothesis and Confidence Intervals | |
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Inferences Concerning Two Means-Independent and Large Samples | |
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Inferences Concerning Two Means-Independent and Small Samples | |
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Inferences Concerning Two Means-Dependent Samples | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Inferences Concerning Variances | |
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The Estimation of Variances | |
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Hypotheses Concerning One Variance | |
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Hypotheses Concerning Two Variances | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Inferences Concerning Proportions | |
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Estimation of Proportions | |
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Hypotheses Concerning One Proportion | |
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Hypotheses Concerning Two Proportions | |
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Hypotheses Concerning Several Proportions | |
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The Analysis of r x c Tables | |
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Exercises | |
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Summary | |
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Final Examinations | |
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Solutions to Chapter Exercises and Final Exams | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |