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  • Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1. visualizing information

  • Chapter 2. measuring central tendency

  • Chapter 3. measuring variability and spread

  • Chapter 4. calculating probabilities

  • Chapter 5. using discrete probability distributions

  • Chapter 6. permutations and combinations

  • Chapter 7. geometric, binomial, and poisson distributions

  • Chapter 8. using the normal distribution

  • Chapter 9. using the normal distribution ii

  • Chapter 10. using statistical sampling

  • Chapter 11. estimating populations and samples

  • Chapter 12. constructing confidence intervals

  • Chapter 13. using hypothesis tests

  • Chapter 14. the χ2 distribution

  • Chapter 15. correlation and regression

  • Appendix i. leftovers

  • Index

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