The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences 3rd edition

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Brigitte Baldi and David S. Moore
Publisher: Macmillan Learning

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  • Chapter 1: Picturing Distributions with Graphs
    • 1.1: Individuals and variables
    • 1.2: Categorical variables: pie charts and bar graphs
    • 1.3: Quantitative variables: histograms
    • 1.4: Interpreting histograms
    • 1.5: Quantitative variables: stemplots and dotplots
    • 1.6: Time plots
    • 1: Check Your Skills
    • 1: Exercises (59)

  • Chapter 2: Describing Distributions with Numbers
    • 2.1: Measuring center: the mean
    • 2.2: Measuring center: the median
    • 2.3: Comparing the mean and the median
    • 2.4: Measuring spread: the quartiles
    • 2.5: The five-number summary and boxplots
    • 2.6: Spotting suspected outliers
    • 2.7: Measuring spread: the standard deviation
    • 2.8: Choosing measures of center and spread
    • 2.9: Using technology
    • 2.10: Organizing a statistical problem
    • 2: Check Your Skills
    • 2: Exercises (69)

  • Chapter 3: Scatterplots and Correlation
    • 3.1: Explanatory and response variables
    • 3.2: Displaying relationships: scatterplots
    • 3.3: Interpreting scatterplots
    • 3.4: Adding categorical variables to scatterplots
    • 3.5: Measuring linear association: correlation
    • 3.6: Facts about correlation
    • 3: Check Your Skills
    • 3: Exercises (10)

  • Chapter 4: Regression
    • 4.1: The least-squares regression line
    • 4.2: Using technology
    • 4.3: Facts about least-squares regression
    • 4.4: Outliers and influential observations
    • 4.5: Cautions about correlation and regression
    • 4.6: Association does not imply causation
    • 4: Check Your Skills
    • 4: Exercises (9)

  • Chapter 5: Two-Way Tables
    • 5.1: Marginal distributions
    • 5.2: Conditional distributions
    • 5.3: Simpson's paradox
    • 5: Check Your Skills
    • 5: Exercises (6)

  • Chapter 6: Exploring Data: Part I Review
    • 6.1: Part I Summary
    • 6.2: Review Exercises
    • 6.3: Supplementary Exercises
    • 6.4: EESEE Case Studies (12)
    • 6: Exercises

  • Chapter 7: Samples and Observational Studies
    • 7.1: Observation versus experiment
    • 7.2: Sampling
    • 7.3: Sampling designs
    • 7.4: Sample surveys
    • 7.5: Cohorts and case-control studies
    • 7: Check Your Skills
    • 7: Exercises (19)

  • Chapter 8: Designing Experiments
    • 8.1: Designing experiments
    • 8.2: Randomized comparative experiments
    • 8.3: Common experimental designs
    • 8.4: Cautions about experimentation
    • 8.5: Ethics in experimentation
    • 8: Check Your Skills
    • 8: Exercises (16)

  • Chapter 9: Introducing Probability
    • 9.1: The idea of probability
    • 9.2: Probability models
    • 9.3: Probability rules
    • 9.4: Discrete probability models
    • 9.5: Continuous probability models
    • 9.6: Random variables
    • 9.7: Personal probability
    • 9.8: Risk and odds
    • 9: Check Your Skills
    • 9: Exercises (62)

  • Chapter 10: General Rules of Probability
    • 10.1: Relationships among several events
    • 10.2: Conditional probability
    • 10.3: General probability rules
    • 10.4: Tree diagrams
    • 10.5: Bayes's theorem
    • 10: Check Your Skills
    • 10: Exercises (61)

  • Chapter 11: The Normal Distributions
    • 11.1: Normal distributions
    • 11.2: The 68-95-99.7 rule
    • 11.3: The standard Normal distribution
    • 11.4: Finding Normal probabilities
    • 11.5: Using the standard Normal table
    • 11.6: Finding a value, given a probability or proportion
    • 11.7: Normal quantile plots
    • 11: Check Your Skills
    • 11: Exercises (53)

  • Chapter 12: Discrete Probability Distributions
    • 12.1: The binomial setting and binomial distributions
    • 12.2: Binomial distributions in statistical sampling
    • 12.3: Binomial probabilities
    • 12.4: Using technology
    • 12.5: Binomial mean and standard deviation
    • 12.6: The Normal approximation to binomial distributions
    • 12.7: The Poisson distributions
    • 12.8: Using technology
    • 12: Check Your Skills
    • 12: Exercises (45)

  • Chapter 13: Sampling Distributions
    • 13.1: Parameters and statistics
    • 13.2: Statistical estimation and sampling distributions
    • 13.3: The sampling distribution of
    • 13.4: The central limit theorem
    • 13.5: The sampling distribution of
    • 13.6: The law of large numbers
    • 13: Check Your Skills
    • 13: Exercises (32)

  • Chapter 14: Introduction to Interference
    • 14.1: The reasoning of statistical estimation
    • 14.2: Margin of error and confidence level
    • 14.3: Confidence intervals for the mean μ
    • 14.4: The reasoning of tests of significance
    • 14.5: Stating hypotheses
    • 14.6: P-value and statistical significance
    • 14.7: Tests for a population mean
    • 14.8: Tests from confidence intervals
    • 14: Check Your Skills
    • 14: Exercises (25)

  • Chapter 15: Inference in Practice
    • 15.1: Conditions for inference in practice
    • 15.2: How confidence intervals behave
    • 15.3: How significance tests behave
    • 15.4: Planning studies: sample size for confidence intervals
    • 15.5: Planning studies: the power of a statistical test
    • 15: Check Your Skills
    • 15: Exercises (16)

  • Chapter 16: From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review
    • 16.1: Part II Summary
    • 16.2: Review Exercises
    • 16.3: Supplementary Exercises
    • 16.4: Optional Chapters Exercises
    • 16.5: EESEE Case Studies (2)

  • Chapter 17: Inference about a Population Mean
    • 17.1: Conditions for inference
    • 17.2: The t distributions
    • 17.3: The one-sample t confidence interval
    • 17.4: The one-sample t test
    • 17.5: Using technology
    • 17.6: Matched pairs t procedures
    • 17.7: Robustness of t procedures
    • 17: Check Your Skills
    • 17: Exercises (40)

  • Chapter 18: Comparing Two Means
    • 18.1: Two-sample problems
    • 18.2: Comparing two population means
    • 18.3: Two-sample t procedures
    • 18.4: Using technology
    • 18.5: Robustness again
    • 18.6: Avoid the pooled two-sample t procedures
    • 18.7: Avoid inference about standard deviations
    • 18: Check Your Skills
    • 18: Exercises (43)

  • Chapter 19: Inference about a Population Proportion
    • 19.1: The sample proportion
    • 19.2: Large-sample confidence intervals for a proportion
    • 19.3: Accurate confidence intervals for a proportion
    • 19.4: Choosing the sample size
    • 19.5: Significance tests for a proportion
    • 19.6: Using technology
    • 19: Check Your Skills
    • 19: Exercises (32)

  • Chapter 20: Comparing Two Proportions
    • 20.1: Two-sample problems: proportions
    • 20.2: The sampling distribution of a difference between proportions
    • 20.3: Large-sample confidence intervals for comparing proportions
    • 20.4: Accurate confidence intervals for comparing proportions
    • 20.5: Significance tests for comparing proportions
    • 20.6: Relative risk and odds ratio
    • 20: Check Your Skills
    • 20: Exercises (24)

  • Chapter 21: The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit
    • 21.1: Hypotheses for goodness of fit
    • 21.2: The chi-square test for goodness of fit
    • 21.3: Using technology
    • 21.4: Interpreting chi-square results
    • 21.5: Conditions for the chi-square test
    • 21.6: The chi-square distributions
    • 21.7: The chi-square test and the one-sample z test
    • 21: Check Your Skills
    • 21: Exercises (8)

  • Chapter 22: The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables
    • 22.1: Two-way tables
    • 22.2: The problem of multiple comparisons
    • 22.3: Expected counts in two-way tables
    • 22.4: The chi-square test
    • 22.5: Using technology
    • 22.6: Conditions for the chi-square test
    • 22.7: Uses of the chi-square test
    • 22.8: Using a table of critical values
    • 22.9: The chi-square test and the two-sample z test
    • 22: Check Your Skills
    • 22: Exercises (51)

  • Chapter 23: Inference for Regression
    • 23.1: Conditions for regression inference
    • 23.2: Estimating the parameters
    • 23.3: Using technology
    • 23.4: Testing the hypothesis of no linear relationship
    • 23.5: Testing lack of correlation
    • 23.6: Confidence intervals for the regression slope
    • 23.7: Inference about prediction
    • 23.8: Checking the conditions for inference
    • 23: Check Your Skills
    • 23: Exercises (70)

  • Chapter 24: One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means
    • 24.1: Comparing several means
    • 24.2: The analysis of variance F test
    • 24.3: Using technology
    • 24.4: The idea of analysis of variance
    • 24.5: Conditions for ANOVA
    • 24.6: F distributions and degrees of freedom
    • 24.7: The one-way ANOVA and the pooled two-sample t test
    • 24.8: Details of ANOVA calculations
    • 24: Check Your Skills
    • 24: Exercises (47)

  • Chapter 25: Statistical Inference: Part III Review
    • 25.1: Part III Summary
    • 25.2: Review Exercises
    • 25.3: Supplementary Exercises
    • 25.4: EESEE Case Studies (7)

  • Chapter 26: More about Analysis of Variance: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA
    • 26.1: Beyond one-way ANOVA
    • 26.2: Follow-up analysis: Tukey's pairwise multiple comparisons
    • 26.3: Follow-up analysis: contrasts
    • 26.4: Two-way ANOVA: conditions, main effects, and interaction
    • 26.5: Inference for two-way ANOVA
    • 26.6: Some details of two-way ANOVA

  • Chapter 27: Nonparametric Tests
    • 27.1: Comparing two samples: the Wilcoxon rank sum test
    • 27.2: Matched pairs: the Wilcoxon signed rank test
    • 27.3: Comparing several samples: the Kruskal-Wallis test

  • Chapter 28: Multiple and Logistic Regression
    • 28.1: Parallel regression lines
    • 28.2: Estimating parameters
    • 28.3: Using technology
    • 28.4: Conditions for inference
    • 28.5: Inference for multiple regression
    • 28.6: Interaction
    • 28.7: A case study for multiple regression
    • 28.8: Logistic regression
    • 28.9: Inference for logistic regression


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