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  1. Introduction
    1. Contents
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    2. What are Statistics?
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    3. Importance of Statistics
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    4. Descriptive Statistics
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    5. Inferential Statistics
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    6. Sampling Demonstration
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    7. Variables
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    8. Percentiles
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    9. Levels of Measurement
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    10. Measurement Demonstration
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    11. Distributions
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    12. Summation Notation
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    13. Linear Transformations
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    14. Logarithms
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    15. Statistical Literacy
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    16. Exercises
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  2. Graphing Distributions
  3. Summarizing Distributions
  4. Describing Bivariate Data
  5. Probability
  6. Research Design
  7. Normal Distribution
  8. Advanced Graphs
  9. Sampling Distributions
  10. Estimation
  11. Logic of Hypothesis Testing
  12. Tests of Means
  13. Power
  14. Regression
  15. Analysis of Variance
  16. Transformations
  17. Chi Square
  18. Distribution Free Tests
  19. Effect Size
  20. Case Studies
  21. Calculators
  22. Glossary
 

I. Introduction

Author(s)

David M. Lane, Mikki Hebl, Dan Osherson, and Heidi Ziemer

Prerequisites

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  1. What are Statistics?
  2. Importance of Statistics
  3. Descriptive Statistics
  4. Inferential Statistics
  5. Sampling Demonstration
  6. Variables
  7. Percentiles
  8. Measurement
    1. Levels of Measurement
    2. Measurement Demonstration
  9. Distributions
  10. Summation Notation
  11. Linear Transformations
  12. Logarithms
  13. Statistical Literacy
  14. Exercises

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This first chapter begins by discussing what statistics are and why the study of statistics is important. Subsequent sections cover a variety of topics all basic to the study of statistics. One theme common to all of these sections is that they cover concepts and ideas important for other chapters in the book.