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| Getting the Information You Need | |
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| Data Collection | |
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| Introduction to the Practice of Statistics | |
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| Observational Studies and Experiments | |
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| Simple Random Sampling | |
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| Other Effective Sampling Methods | |
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| Bias in Sampling | |
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| the Design of Experiments | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend? | |
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| Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash | |
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| Descriptive Statistics | |
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| Creating Tables and Drawing Pictures of Data | |
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| Organizing Qualitative Data | |
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| Organizing Quantitative Data: the Population Displays | |
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| Additional Displays of Quantitative Data | |
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| Graphical Misrepresentations of Data | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs? | |
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| Case Study: the Day the Sky Roared | |
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| Numerically Summarizing Data | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency | |
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| Measures of Dispersion | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data | |
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| Measures of Position and Outliers | |
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| the Five-Number Summary and Boxplots | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy? | |
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| Case Study: Who Was "A Mourner"? | |
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| Describing the Relation Between Two Variables | |
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| Scatter Diagrams and Correlation | |
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| Least-Squares Regression | |
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| Diagnostics on the Least-Squares Regression Line | |
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| Contingency Tables and Association | |
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| Nonlinear Regression: Transformations (on CD) | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Relationships of Variables on a World Scale | |
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| Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence | |
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| Probability and Probability Distributions | |
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| Probability | |
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| Probability Rules | |
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| the Addition Rule and Complements | |
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| Independence and the Multiplication Rule | |
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| Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule | |
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| Counting Techniques | |
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| Putting It Together: Probability | |
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| Bayes's Rule (on CD) | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: the Effects of Drinking and Driving | |
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| Case Study: the Case of the Body in the Bag | |
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| Discrete Probability Distributions | |
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| Discrete Random Variables | |
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| the Binomial Probability Distribution | |
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| the Poisson Probability Distribution | |
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| the Hypergeometric Probability Distribution (on CD) | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Should we Convict? | |
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| Case Study: the Voyage of the St. Andrew | |
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| the Normal Probability Distribution | |
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| Properties of the Normal Distribution | |
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| Applications of the Normal Distribution | |
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| Assessing Normality | |
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| the Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking | |
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| Case Study: a Tale of Blood, Chemistry, and Health | |
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| Inferences - From Samples to Population | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| Distribution of the Sample Mean | |
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| Distribution of the Sample Proportion | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: How Much Time Do You Spend in a Day? | |
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| Case Study: Sampling Distribution of the Median | |
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| Estimating the Value of a Parameter Using Confidence Intervals | |
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| Estimating a Population Proportion | |
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| Estimating a Population Mean | |
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| Confidence Intervals for a Population Standard Deviation | |
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| Putting It Together: Which Procedure Do I Use? | |
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| Estimating with Bootstrapping (NEW) | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: How Much Should I Spend for this House? | |
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| Case Study: Fire-Safe Cigarettes | |
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| Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter | |
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| the Language of Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion | |
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| Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean | |
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| Hypothesis Tests for a Population Standard Deviation | |
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| Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? | |
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| the Probability of a Type II Error and the Power of the Test | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Selecting a Mutual Fund | |
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| Case Study: How Old is Stonehenge? | |
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| Inference on Two Samples | |
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| Inference about Two Proportions | |
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| Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples | |
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| Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples | |
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| Inference about Two Standard Deviations | |
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| Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use? | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Which Car Should I Buy? | |
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| Case Study: Control in the Design of Experiment | |
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| Inference on Categorical Data | |
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| Goodness of Fit Test | |
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| Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Benefits of College | |
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| Case Study: Feeling Lucky? Well, are You? | |
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| Comparing Three or More Means | |
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| Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance) | |
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| Post-Hoc Tests on One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
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| the Randomized Complete Block Design | |
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| Two-Way Analysis of Variance | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Invest? Part II | |
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| Case Study: Hat Size and Intelligence | |
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| Inference of the Least-Squares Regression Model and Multiple | |
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| Regression | |
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| Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model | |
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| Confidence and Prediction Intervals | |
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| Multiple Regression | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Buying a Home | |
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| Case Study: Housing Boom | |
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| Nonparametric Statistics | |
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| An Overview of Nonparametric Statistics | |
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| Runs Test for Randomness | |
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| Inferences about Measures of Central Tendency | |
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| Inferences about the Difference between Two Medians: Dependent Samples | |
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| Inferences about the Difference between Two Medians: Independent Samples | |
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| Spearman's Rank-Correlation Test | |
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| Kruskal-Wallis Test | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Chapter Test | |
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| Making an Informed Decision: Where Should I Live? | |
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| Case Study: Evaluating Alabama's 1891 House Bill 504 | |
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| Tables | |
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| Lines (on CD) | |
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| Answers | |
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| Index | |