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Introduction | |
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Overview of the Text | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Data Presentation | |
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Types of Numerical Data | |
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Nominal Data | |
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Ordinal Data | |
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Ranked Data | |
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Discrete Data | |
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Continuous Data | |
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Tables | |
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Frequency Distributions | |
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Relative Frequency | |
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Graphs | |
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Bar Charts | |
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Histograms | |
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Frequency Polygons | |
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One-Way Scatter Plots | |
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Box Plots | |
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Two-Way Scatter Plots | |
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Line Graphs | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Numerical Summary Measures | |
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Measures of Central Tendency | |
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Mean | |
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Median | |
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Mode | |
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Measures of Dispersion | |
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Range | |
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Interquartile Range | |
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Variance and Standard Deviation | |
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Coefficient of Variation | |
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Grouped Data | |
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Grouped Mean | |
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Grouped Variance | |
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Chebychev's Inequality | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Rates and Standardization | |
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Rates | |
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Standardization of Rates | |
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Direct Method of Standardization | |
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Indirect Method of Standardization | |
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Use of Standardized Rates | |
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Further Applications | |
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Direct Method of Standardization | |
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Indirect Method of Standardization | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Life Tables | |
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Computation of the Life Table | |
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Column 1 | |
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Column 2 | |
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Columns 3 and 4 | |
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Column 5 | |
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Column 6 | |
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Column 7 | |
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Applications of the Life Table | |
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Years of Potential Life Lost | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Probability | |
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Operations on Events and Probability | |
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Conditional Probability | |
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Bayes' Theorem | |
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Diagnostic Tests | |
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Sensitivity and Specificity | |
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Applications of Bayes' Theorem | |
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ROC Curves | |
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Calculation of Prevalence | |
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The Relative Risk and the Odds Ratio | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Theoretical Probability Distributions | |
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Probability Distributions | |
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The Binomial Distribution | |
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The Poisson Distribution | |
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The Normal Distribution | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Sampling Distribution of the Mean | |
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Sampling Distributions | |
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The Central Limit Theorem | |
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Applications of the Central Limit Theorem | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Confidence Intervals | |
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Two-Sided Confidence Intervals | |
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One-Sided Confidence Intervals | |
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Student's t Distribution | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Hypothesis Testing | |
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General Concepts | |
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Two-Sided Tests of Hypotheses | |
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One-Sided Tests of Hypotheses | |
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Types of Error | |
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Power | |
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Sample Size Estimation | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Comparison of Two Means | |
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Paired Samples | |
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Independent Samples | |
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Equal Variances | |
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Unequal Variances | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Analysis of Variance | |
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One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
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The Problem | |
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Sources of Variation | |
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Multiple Comparisons Procedures | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Nonparametric Methods | |
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The Sign Test | |
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The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test | |
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The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test | |
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Nonparametric Methods | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Inference on Proportions | |
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Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
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Sampling Distribution of a Proportion | |
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Confidence Intervals | |
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Hypothesis Testing | |
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Sample Size Estimation | |
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Comparison of Two Proportions | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Contingency Tables | |
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The Chi-Square Test | |
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2 [times] 2 Tables | |
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r [times] c Tables | |
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McNemar's Test | |
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The Odds Ratio | |
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Berkson's Fallacy | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Multiple 2 [times] 2 Tables | |
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Simpson's Paradox | |
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The Mantel-Haenszel Method | |
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Test of Homogeneity | |
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Summary Odds Ratio | |
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Test of Association | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Correlation | |
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The Two-Way Scatter Plot | |
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Pearson's Correlation Coefficient | |
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Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Simple Linear Regression | |
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Regression Concepts | |
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The Model | |
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The Population Regression Line | |
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The Method of Least Squares | |
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Inference for Regression Coefficients | |
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Inference for Predicted Values | |
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Evaluation of the Model | |
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The Coefficient of Determination | |
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Residual Plots | |
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Transformations | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Multiple Regression | |
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The Model | |
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The Least-Squares Regression Equation | |
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Inference for Regression Coefficients | |
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Evaluation of the Model | |
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Indicator Variables | |
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Interaction Terms | |
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Model Selection | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Logistic Regression | |
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The Model | |
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The Logistic Function | |
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The Fitted Equation | |
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Multiple Logistic Regression | |
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Indicator Variables | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Survival Analysis | |
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The Life Table Method | |
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The Product-Limit Method | |
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The Log-Rank Test | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Sampling Theory | |
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Sampling Schemes | |
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Simple Random Sampling | |
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Systematic Sampling | |
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Stratified Sampling | |
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Cluster Sampling | |
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Nonprobability Sampling | |
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Sources of Bias | |
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Further Applications | |
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Review Exercises | |
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Bibliography | |
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Tables | |
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Data Sets | |
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Index | |