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| Gathering and Exploring Data | |
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| Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data | |
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| How Can You Investigate Using Data? | |
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| We Learn about Population Using Samples | |
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| What Role do Computers Play in Statistics? | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries | |
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| What Are the Types of Data? | |
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| How Can We Describe Data using Graphical Summaries? | |
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| How Can We Describe the Center of Quantitative Data? | |
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| How Can We Describe the Spread of Quantitative Data? | |
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| How Can Measures of Position Describe Spread? | |
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| How Can Graphical Summaries Be Misused? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Association: Contingency, Correlation, and Regression | |
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| How Can We Explore the Association between Two Categorical Variables? | |
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| How Can We Explore the Association between Two Quantitative Variables? | |
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| How Can We Predict the Outcome of a Variable? | |
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| What are Some Cautions in Analyzing Associations? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Gathering Data | |
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| Should We Experiment or Should We Merely Observe? | |
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| What Are Good Ways and Poor Ways to Sample? | |
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| What Are Good Ways and Poor Ways to Experiment? | |
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| What Are Other Ways to Perform Experimental and Nonexperimental Studies? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Part 1 Review | |
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| Part 1 Summary | |
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| Part 1 Exercises | |
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| Probability and Probability Distributions | |
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| Probability in our Daily Lives | |
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| How Can Probability Quantify Randomness? | |
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| How Can We Find Probabilities? | |
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| Conditional Probability: What's the Probability of A, Given B? | |
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| Applying the Probability Rules | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| How Can We Summarize Possible Outcomes and Their Probabilities? | |
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| How Can We Find Probabilities for Bell-Shaped Distributions? | |
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| How Can We Find Probabilities when Each Observation has Two Possible Outcomes? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| How Likely Are the Possible Values of a Statistics? | |
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| The Sampling Distribution | |
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| How Close Are Sample Means to Population Means? | |
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| How Can We Make Inferences about a Population? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Part 2 Review | |
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| Part 2 Summary | |
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| Part 2 Exercises | |
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| Inference Statistics | |
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| Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals | |
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| What Are Point and Interval Estimates of Population Parameters? | |
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| How Can We Construct a Confidence Interval to Estimate a Population Proportion? | |
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| How Can We Construct a Confidence Interval to Estimate a Population Mean? | |
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| How Do We Choose the Sample Size for a Study? | |
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| How Do Computers Make New Estimation Methods Possible? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Exercises | |
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| Statistical Inference: Significance Tests about Hypotheses | |
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| What Are the Steps for Performing a Significance Test? | |
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| Significance Tests about Proportions | |
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| Significance Tests about Means | |
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| Decisions and Types of Errors in Significance Tests | |
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| Limitations of Significance Tests | |
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| How Likely is a Type II Error (Not Rejecting H0, Even though it's False)? | |
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| Answers to Chapter Figure Questions | |
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