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List of Figures and Tables |
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About the Author |
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1 The Challenge and Promise of Inference |
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2 | (1) |
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Informal Inference: The Tyranny of Causal Narratives |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (4) |
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Exploration and Inference: Detectives and Lawyers |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (4) |
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Inference, Reproducibility and Replication |
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15 | (1) |
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Inference in Action: The Salk Vaccine Trial |
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15 | (2) |
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Inference in Action: Fertility and Development |
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17 | (1) |
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The World Before Statistics |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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The Structure of This Book |
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19 | (2) |
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2 Probability, Randomness, Probability Distributions and Sampling Distributions |
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21 | (38) |
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22 | (2) |
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Some Elementary Descriptive Statistics and Notations |
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24 | (5) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (5) |
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The Probability Distribution |
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37 | (3) |
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Bar Charts and Histograms |
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40 | (2) |
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Heights of Union Soldiers |
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42 | (2) |
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Probability Distributions and Variables |
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44 | (1) |
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Conditional Probability With Categorical Variables |
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45 | (5) |
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Conditional Probability With Continuous Variables |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (3) |
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Conditional Probabilities With a Continuous and Categorical Distribution |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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Appendix: Simulating Coin Flips With Excel |
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56 | (3) |
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3 Bernoulli, Coke and Pepsi |
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59 | (20) |
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60 | (1) |
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Statistical Inference and Research Design |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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Short Run Probabilities: The Binomial Distribution |
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62 | (5) |
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The Sampling Distribution and p-Values |
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67 | (2) |
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Alpha, Significance, Confidence and Type I Errors |
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69 | (1) |
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Improbable Expectations, Definite Results |
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70 | (1) |
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Why the Double Negative and All the Bother? |
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71 | (1) |
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71 | (2) |
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From Statistical Inference to Scientific Inference |
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73 | (1) |
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What Does Significant Mean? |
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73 | (1) |
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Appendix: A Famous Experiment: Milk First or Tea First? |
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74 | (5) |
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4 Samples and Populations |
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79 | (40) |
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The Difficulty of Measurement |
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80 | (1) |
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The Illusion of Representative Samples |
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81 | (1) |
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The Sampling Distribution, Samples and Populations |
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82 | (4) |
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Flipping the Logic: One Sample From a Distribution |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (1) |
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Confidence Intervals for Point Estimates |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (1) |
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Examining Differences in Means and Proportions |
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93 | (2) |
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Calculating Standard Errors for Categorical Variables |
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95 | (4) |
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The Binomial Formula in Action: Stop and Search |
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99 | (2) |
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Chi-Square and Contingency Tables |
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101 | (8) |
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Chi-Square and Goodness of Fit |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (3) |
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Appendix: Degrees of Freedom |
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116 | (3) |
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5 Inference and Regression |
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119 | (34) |
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120 | (1) |
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120 | (4) |
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124 | (2) |
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Regression as the Analysis of Unconditional and Conditional Variance |
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126 | (5) |
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Correlation and Regression |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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Inference in Regression: The F-Statistic and Standard Errors |
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135 | (2) |
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An Example of Multiple OLS Regression |
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137 | (4) |
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What Can Go Wrong With Multiple Regression? |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (2) |
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Appendix: A Refresher on Powers and Logarithms |
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144 | (9) |
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144 | (2) |
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Arithmetic Rules of Powers |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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Powers Need Not Be Whole Numbers |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (4) |
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6 Power, Effect Size and Inverse Probability |
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153 | (20) |
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154 | (2) |
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Thomas Bayes: Prior and Posterior Probabilities |
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156 | (9) |
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Taxi for Kahneman and Tversky |
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165 | (2) |
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A More Substantial Application: Medical Tests |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (4) |
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7 What Does Sound Inference Comprise? |
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173 | (20) |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (8) |
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The Six Principles of the ASA |
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183 | (3) |
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From the Six Principles to ATOM |
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186 | (3) |
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Contemporary Scientific Research |
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189 | (4) |
Glossary |
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193 | (4) |
References |
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197 | (4) |
Index |
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