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The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences 1st edition

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Brigette Baldi and David S. Moore
Publisher: W. H. Freeman


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Table of Contents

  • 1: Picturing Distributions with Graphs (8)
  • 2: Describing Distributions with Numbers (9)
  • 3: Scatterplots and Correlation (13)
  • 4: Regression (12)
  • 5: Two-Way Tables (4)
  • 6: Exploring Data: Part I Review (14)
  • 7: Samples and Observational Studies (5)
  • 8: Designing Experiments (19)
  • 9: Introducing Probability (3)
  • 10: General Rules of Probability (7)
  • 11: The Normal Distributions (7)
  • 12: Discrete Probability Distributions (6)
  • 13: Sampling Distributions (9)
  • 14: Introduction to Inference (11)
  • 15: Inference in Practice (6)
  • 16: From Exploration to Inference: Part II review
  • 17: Inference about a Population Mean (9)
  • 18: Two-Sample Problems (3)
  • 19: Inference about a Population Proportion (4)
  • 20: Comparing Two Proportions (4)
  • 21: The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit
  • 22: The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables (4)
  • 23: Inference for Regression (5)
  • 24: One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means (5)
  • 25: Inference: Part III Review (3)
  • 26: Beyond One-Way ANOVA: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA
  • 27: Nonparametric Tests

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Chapter 1: Picturing Distributions with Graphs
E 8 004 009 026 030 034 039 042 043
Chapter 2: Describing Distributions with Numbers
E 9 010 012 024 028 036 037 038 040 042
Chapter 3: Scatterplots and Correlation
E 13 002 004 005 006 008 009 017 018 019 020 029 036 037
Chapter 4: Regression
E 12 004 018 019 022 023 024 025 028 033 035 047 050
Chapter 5: Two-Way Tables
E 4 001 024 029 030
Chapter 6: Exploring Data: Part I Review
E 14 004 005 006 009 011 013 015 016 017 019 021 022 026 027
Chapter 7: Samples and Observational Studies
E 5 012 028 029 032 035
Chapter 8: Designing Experiments
E 19 001 002 008 011 014 015 016 017 018 020 021 025 026 034 035 036 039 040 042
Chapter 9: Introducing Probability
E 3 003 029 043
Chapter 10: General Rules of Probability
E 7 009 014 019 029 047 049 051
Chapter 11: The Normal Distributions
E 7 010 014 018 022 023 025 033
Chapter 12: Discrete Probability Distributions
E 6 010 017 029 032 036 037
Chapter 13: Sampling Distributions
E 9 005 008 011 028 032 033 034 035 037
Chapter 14: Introduction to Inference
E 11 005 006 017 018 019 022 024 038 045 047 048
Chapter 15: Inference in Practice
E 6 008 010 022 037 044 056
Chapter 16: From Exploration to Inference: Part II review
16 0  
Chapter 17: Inference about a Population Mean
E 9 002 005 009 010 027 030 033 034 040
Chapter 18: Two-Sample Problems
E 3 005 029 043
Chapter 19: Inference about a Population Proportion
E 4 003 011 012 037
Chapter 20: Comparing Two Proportions
E 4 002 021 022 033
Chapter 21: The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit
21 0  
Chapter 22: The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables
E 4 001 005 017 029
Chapter 23: Inference for Regression
E 5 004 014 036 038 043
Chapter 24: One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means
E 5 013 015 020 025 031
Chapter 25: Inference: Part III Review
E 3 006 014 019
Chapter 26: Beyond One-Way ANOVA: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA
26 0  
Chapter 27: Nonparametric Tests
27 0  
Total 170  
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