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| Preface A User's Guide to Features Table of Prerequisite Material | |
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| Getting Started Focus Problem: Where Have All the Fireflies Gone? | |
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| What Is Statistics? | |
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| Random Samples | |
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| Introduction to Experimental Design | |
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| Organizing Data Focus Problem: Say It with Pictures | |
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| Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Time Plots | |
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| Frequency Distributions and Histograms | |
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| Stem-and-Leaf Displays | |
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| Averages and Variation Focus Problem: Why Bother! | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and Mean | |
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| Measures of Variation | |
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| Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots | |
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| Regression and Correlation Focus Problem: Changing Populations and Crime Rate | |
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| Introduction to Paired Data and Scatter Diagrams | |
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| Linear Regression | |
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| The Linear Correlation Coefficient | |
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| Elementary Probability Theory Focus Problem: How Often Do Lie Detectors Lie? | |
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| What Is Probability? | |
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| Some Probability Rules--Compound Events | |
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| Trees and Counting Techniques | |
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| The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics Focus Problem: Personality Preference Types: Introvert or Extrovert? | |
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| Introduction to Random Variables and Probability Distributions | |
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| Binomial Probabilities | |
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| Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution | |
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| Normal Distributions Focus Problem: Large Auditorium Shows: How Many Will Attend? | |
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| Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions | |
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| Standard Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution | |
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| Areas Under Any Normal Curve | |
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| Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
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| Introduction to Sampling Distributions Focus Problem: Impulse Buying | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| The Central Limit Theorem | |
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| Class Project Illustrating the Central Limit Theorem | |
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| Estimation Focus Problem: Trick or Treat! | |
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| Estimating ? with Large Samples | |
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| Estimating ? with Small Samples | |
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| Estimating p in the Binomial Distribution | |
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| Choosing the Sample Size | |
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| Hypothesis Testing Focus Problem: Business Opportunities and Start-Up Costs | |
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| Introduction to Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Test Involving the Mean ? (Large Samples) | |
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| The P Value in Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Tests Involving the Mean ? (Small Samples) | |
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| Tests Involving a Proportion | |
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| Inferences About Differences Focus Problem: The Trouble with Wood Ducks | |
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| Tests Involving Paired Difference (Dependent Samples) | |
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| Inferences About the Difference of Two Means (Large, Independent Samples) | |
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| Inferences About the Difference of Two Means (Small, Independent Samples) | |
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| Inferences About the Difference of Two Proportions | |
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| Additional Topics Using Inference Focus Problem: Stone Age Tools and Archaeolog? | |
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| Hypothesis Tests Using the Chi-Square Distribution | |
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| Chi Square: Tests of Independence | |
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| Chi Square: Goodness of Fit | |
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| Testing a Single Variance or Standard Deviatio? | |
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| Inferences Relating to Linear Regression | |
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| Linear Regression: Confidence Intervals for Predictions | |
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| Testing the Correlation Coefficient and the Slope | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Tables | |
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| Random Numbers | |
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| Binomial Coefficients Cn,r | |
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| Binomial Probability Distribution Cn,rprqn-r | |
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| Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution | |
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| Student's t Distribution | |
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| The X2 Distribution | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Answers and Key Steps to Odd-Numbered Problems | |
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| Index | |