| Chapter 1: Proportions in Samples, Proportions in Populations |
Activity Instructions
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Activity 1.1: |
The Most Popular News Statistics |
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How Many People Are There? |
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Things Vary, and Small Samples Vary the Most |
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Chapter 2: The Pattern in Random Sample Proportions |
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Activity 2.1: |
Taking a Good Sample of a Population |
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| Activity 2.2: |
How Samples Vary |
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| Activity 2.3: |
How Widely Samples Vary |
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Chapter 3: Making Inferences |
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Activity 3.1: |
Forecasting the Future |
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What a Sample Reveals About a Population |
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| Activity 3.3: |
The Story of Statistical Inference |
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Chapter 4: Testing Locations and Differences of Proportions |
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Activity 4.1: |
Testing Where a Proportion Is |
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How to Look for Differences in Chances |
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Checking for No Correlation with the Chi-Square Test |
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Chapter 5: Averages and Other Number Line Statistics in the News |
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Activity 5.1: |
Incomes and Other Quantities |
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Which Tells the Truth—The Mean, the Median… or the Weighted Mean? |
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Inflation and the Consumer Price Index |
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Chapter 6: What Sample Data Distribution Reveals About the Population |
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Activity 6.1: |
Exploratory Data Analysis |
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Describing Number Line Variation |
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How to See the Future |
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Chapter 7: Testing Treatments |
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Activity 7.1: |
A Cautionary Tale |
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How to Test Whether a Treatment Works |
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Variances Between and Within |
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Chapter 8: Analysis of Variance |
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Activity 8.1: |
Fisher’s Analysis of Variance |
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What If the Data Are Not Normally Distributed? |
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American Counties |
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Chapter 9: Best Lines |
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Activity 9.1: |
Lines |
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Finding Best-Fitting Lines |
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An Excellent Line |
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Chapter 10: Tests of Regression |
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Activity 10.1: |
How to Test the Regression Models |
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What If the Assumptions of the Regression Test Are Not Valid? |
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