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| Descriptive Statistics | |
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| The Study of Statistics | |
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| Why Study Statistics? | |
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| Descriptive and Inferential Statistics | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Summation Sign | |
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| Summary | |
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| Frequency Distributions and Graphing | |
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| Types of Frequency Distributions | |
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| Constructing Frequency Distributions with Class Intervals | |
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| Graphs of Frequency Distributions | |
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| How Distributions Differ | |
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| Summary | |
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| Characteristics of Distributions | |
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| Indicators of Central Tendency | |
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| Indicators of Variability | |
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| Populations and Samples | |
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| A Note on Calculators and Computers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Elements of Exploratory Data Analysis | |
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| Stem-and-Leaf Displays | |
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| Resistant Indicators | |
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| Summary | |
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| Indicators of Relative Standing | |
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| Percentiles | |
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| Changing the Properties of Scales | |
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| Standard Scores and the Normal Distribution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Regression | |
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| Linear Relationships | |
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| Regression Constants and the Regression Line | |
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| Standard Error of Estimate | |
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| Summary | |
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| Correlation | |
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| The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient | |
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| Properties of the Correlation Coefficient | |
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| Sampling Factors That Change the Correlation Coefficient | |
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| Causality and Correlation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Inferential Statistics | |
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| Sampling, Sampling Distributions, and Probability | |
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| Methods of Sampling | |
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| Sampling Distributions and Sampling Error | |
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| Probability and Its Application to Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Estimation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction to Hypothesis Testing: Terminology and Theory | |
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| Statistical Terminology | |
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| Hypothesis Testing When [sigma subscript x] Is Estimated by s[subscript x] | |
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| Summary | |
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| Elementary Techniques of Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Inferences about the Difference between Means | |
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| Inferences about Correlation Coefficients | |
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| A Comparison of the Difference between Means and Correlation | |
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| Statistics in the Journals | |
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| Summary | |
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| Beyond Hypothesis Testing: Effect Size and Interval Estimation | |
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| Beyond Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Indices of Size | |
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| Interval Estimation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Special Topics | |
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| Introduction to Research Design | |
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| Scientific Questions | |
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| Operationalizing | |
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| Data Collection and Data Analysis | |
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| Conclusions and Interpretations | |
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| The Research Report | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Topics in Probability | |
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| Set Theory | |
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| Simple Classical Probability | |
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| Probability of Complex Events | |
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| Methods of Counting | |
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| Summary | |
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| Simple Analysis of Variance | |
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| Logic of the Analysis of Variance | |
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| Computational Procedures | |
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| Comparisons between Specific Means | |
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| Size of Relationship | |
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| Summary | |
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| Two-Factor Analysis of Variance | |
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| Two-Factor Classification | |
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| Logic of Two-Factor Analysis of Variance | |
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| Computational Procedures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Nonparametric Techniques | |
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| Parametric and Nonparametric Tests | |
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| Tests on Independent Samples | |
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| Tests on Correlated Samples | |
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| Rank-Order Correlation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Math Review | |
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| Tables | |
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| Symbols | |
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| Terms | |
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| Answers | |
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| Index | |