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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction to Statistics | |
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| The Role of Statistics in Health Administration | |
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| Basic Definitions | |
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| Descriptive and Inferential Statistics | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| The Presentation of Data | |
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| Frequency Distributions | |
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| Cumulative Distributions | |
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| Frequency Distributions and the Use of Excel | |
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| The Use of Excel to Prepare Graphic Presentations | |
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| Applications to Health Administration | |
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| The Distribution and Its Properties | |
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| The Properties of a Distribution | |
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| Selecting the Sample | |
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| Measures of Location | |
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| Ratios and Indices | |
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| Measures of Dispersion | |
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| Skewness and Kurtosis | |
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| An Application of Excel | |
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| The Fundamentals of Probability | |
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| Basic Approaches to Probability | |
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| Unions, Intersections, and Complements | |
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| The Postulates of Probability | |
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| Rules of Addition | |
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| Conditional Probability | |
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| The Interpretation of Conditional Probability | |
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| Rules of Multiplication | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| The Probability Function | |
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| Discrete Probability Distributions | |
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| Continuous Random Variables: The Normal Distribution | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| The Central Limit Theorem | |
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| Inferences Concerning the Mean | |
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| Point and Interval Estimates of the Mean | |
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| Basic Notation | |
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| Interval Estimates of the Mean | |
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| Introduction to Hypotheses and Related Risks | |
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| Specification of Hypotheses | |
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| Tests of Significance: Presumed Values of the True Mean | |
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| Contrasts Involving Two Means | |
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| The Use of Excel to Perform the Calculations | |
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| Sample Size: Precision of the Estimate | |
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| Sample Size: Type I and Type II Errors | |
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| Inferences Concerning the Proportion | |
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| Estimation of the Population Proportion, [pi] | |
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| Tests of Significance: Presumed Values of the True Proportion | |
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| Contrasts Involving Two Proportions | |
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| Test Concerning Multiple Proportions | |
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| Tests of Independence or Relationship | |
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| Analysis of Variance | |
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| One-Way or One-Factor ANOVA | |
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| Two-Way or Two-Factor ANOVA | |
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| Two-Factor ANOVA: With Interaction or Replication | |
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| Covariance | |
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| A Graph of Association | |
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| Covariance | |
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| Application of Excel | |
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| Simple Regression Analysis | |
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| The Basic Concepts | |
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| Parameter Estimation | |
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| The Standard Error of the Estimate | |
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| Measures of Association | |
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| An Examination of the Line of Average Relationship | |
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| An Application of Excel | |
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| Prediction | |
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| Multiple Regression Analysis | |
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| The General Model | |
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| The Standard Error of the Estimate | |
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| The Coefficient of Multiple Determination: R[superscript 2] | |
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| Evaluation of the Parameter Estimates | |
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| The Use of Excel to Perform the Analysis | |
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| Nonlinear Relationships | |
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| Binary Variables | |
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| Interactive Variables | |
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| Introduction to Forecasting | |
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| The Estimation of Trend | |
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| An Autoregressive Approach to Forecasting | |
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| Estimating Seasonal Variation | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| An Introduction to Excel | |
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| Solutions to Selected Exercises | |
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| Statistical Tables | |
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| Index | |