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Table of Contents

   1.1 Preliminary: Introduction to the six-step method

   1.2 Preliminary: Exploring data

   1.3 Preliminary: Exploring random processes

   1.4 Data and formulas

   2.1 Example: Introduction to chance models

   2.2 Example: Measuring the strength of evidence

   2.3 Example: Alternative measure of strength of evidence

   2.4 Example: What impacts strength of evidence?

   2.5 Example: Inference on a single proportion: Theory-based approach

   2.6 Supplemental Exploration: Introduction to chance models

   2.7 Supplemental Exploration: Measuring the strength of evidence

   2.8 Supplemental Exploration: Do People Use Facial Prototyping?

   2.9 Supplemental Exploration: Competitive Advantage to Uniform Colors?

   2.10 Supplemental Exploration: Eye Dominance

   2.11 Investigation: Tire story falls flat

   2.12 Tools, data, and formulas

   3.1 Example: Sampling from a finite population

   3.2 Example: Inference for a single quantitative variable

   3.3 Example: Theory-based Inference for a Population Mean

   3.4 Example: Other Statistics

   3.5 Supplemental Exploration: Sampling Words

   3.6 Supplemental Exploration: Inference for a single quantitative variable

   3.7 Supplemental Exploration: Sleepless Nights?

   3.8 Supplemental Exploration: Other statistics

   3.9 Investigation: Faking cell phone calls

   3.10 Tools, data, and formulas

   4.1 Example: Statistical inference: Confidence intervals

   4.2 Example: 2SD and theory-based confidence intervals for a single proportion

   4.3 Example: 2SD and theory-based confidence intervals for a single mean

   4.4 Example: Factors that affect the width of a confidence interval

   4.5 Supplemental Exploration: Statistical inference: Confidence intervals

   4.6 Supplemental Exploration: 2SD and theory-based confidence intervals for a single proportion

   4.7 Supplemental Exploration: 2SD and theory-based confidence intervals for a single mean

   4.8 Supplemental Exploration A: Factors that affect the width of a confidence interval

   4.9 Supplemental Exploration B: Factors that affect the width of a confidence interval

   4.10 Investigation: Cell phones while driving

   4.11 Tools, data, and formulas

   5.1 Example: Association and confounding

   5.2 Example: Observational studies vs. experiments

   5.3 Supplemental Exploration: Association and confounding

   5.4 Supplemental Exploration: Observational studies versus experiments

   5.5 Investigation: High anxiety and sexual attraction

   5.6 Tools and data

   6.1 Example: Comparing two groups: Categorical response

   6.2 Example: Comparing two proportions: Simulation-based approach

   6.3 Example: Comparing two proportions: Theory-based approach

   6.4 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing two groups: Categorical response

   6.5 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing two proportions: Simulation-based approach

   6.6 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing two proportions: Theory-based approach

   6.7 Investigation: Does vitamin C improve your health?

   6.8 Tools, data, and formulas

   7.1 Example: Comparing two groups: Quantitative response

   7.2 Example: Comparing two means: Simulation-based approach

   7.3 Example: Comparing two means: Theory-based approach

   7.4 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing two groups: Quantitative response

   7.5 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing two means: Simulation-based approach

   7.6 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing two means: Theory-based approach

   7.7 Investigation: Memorizing letters

   7.8 Tools, data, and formulas

   8.1 Example: Paired designs

   8.2 Example: Simulation-based approach for analyzing paired data

   8.3 Example: Theory-based approach to analyzing data from paired samples

   8.4 Supplemental Exploration: Paired designs

   8.5 Supplemental Exploration: Simulation-based approach for analyzing paired data

   8.6 Supplemental Exploration: Theory-based approach for analyzing paired data

   8.7 Investigation: Filtering water in Cameroon

   8.8 Tools, data, and formulas

   9.1 Example: Comparing multiple proportions: Simulation-based approach

   9.2 Example: Comparing multiple proportions: Theory-based approach

   9.3 Example: Chi-square goodness-of-fit test

   9.4 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing multiple proportions: Simulation-based approach

   9.5 Supplemental Exploration A: Comparing multiple proportions: Theory-based approach

   9.6 Supplemental Exploration B: Comparing multiple proportions: Theory-based approach

   9.7 Supplemental Exploration: Chi-square goodness-of-fit test

   9.8 Investigation: Who yields to pedestrians?

   9.9 Tools, data, and formulas

   10.1 Example: Comparing multiple means: Simulation-based approach

   10.2 Example: Comparing multiple means: Theory-based approach

   10.3 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing multiple means: Simulation-based approach

   10.4 Supplemental Exploration: Comparing multiple means: Theory-based approach

   10.5 Investigation: Aggression

   10.6 Tools, data, and formulas

   11.1 Example: Two quantitative variables: Scatterplot and correlation

   11.2 Example: Inference for correlation coefficient: A simulation-based approach

   11.3 Example: Least squares regression

   11.4 Example: Inference for regression slope: Simulation-based approach

   11.5 Example: Inference for regression slope: Theory-based approach

   11.6 Supplemental ​​Exploration: Two quantitative variables: Scatterplot and correlation

   11.7 Supplemental Exploration: Inference for correlation coefficient: A simulation-based approach

   11.8 Supplemental Exploration: Least squares regression

   11.9 Supplemental Exploration: Inference for regression slope: Simulation-based approach

   11.10 Supplemental Exploration: Inference for regression slope: Theory-based approach

   11.11 Investigation: Association between hand span and candy?

   11.12 Tools, data, and formulas

   12.1 Example: Basics of probability

   12.2 Example: Probability rules

   12.3 Example: Conditional probability and independence

   12.4 Example: Discrete random variables

   12.5 Example: Random variable rules

   12.6 Example: Binomial and geometric random variables

   12.7 Example: Continuous random variables and normal distribution

   12.8 Example: Revisiting theory-based approximations of sampling distributions

   12.9 ​​Supplemental Exploration: Basics of probability

   12.10 ​​Supplemental Exploration: Probability rules

   12.11 ​​Supplemental Exploration A: Conditional probability and independence

   12.12 ​​Supplemental Exploration B: Conditional probability and independence

   12.13 ​​Supplemental Exploration: Discrete random variables

   12.14 ​​Supplemental Exploration: Random variable rules

   12.15 ​​Supplemental Exploration: Binomial and geometric random variables

   12.16 ​​Supplemental Exploration A: Continuous random variables and normal distribution

   12.17 ​​Supplemental Exploration B: Continuous random variables and normal distribution

   12.18 ​​Supplemental Exploration A: Revisiting theory-based approximations of sampling distributions

   12.19 ​​Supplemental Exploration B: Revisiting theory-based approximations of sampling distributions

   13.1 Under the Spiral:  How the ISI zyBook teaches the Statistical Investigation Process

   13.2 Examples and Explorations

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Authors

Nathan Tintle / Professor, Statistics / Dordt University
Beth Chance / Professor, Statistics / California Polytechnic University
George Cobb / Robert L. Rooke Professor Emeritus, Statistics / Mount Holyoke College
Allan Rossman / Professor and Department Chair, Statistics / California Polytechnic University
Soma Roy / Professor, Statistics / California Polytechnic University
Todd Swanson / Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics / Hope College
Jill VanderStoep / Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics / Hope College

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Julia Schedler / Content Lead, Statistics / zyBooks / PhD in Statistics / Rice University
Ayla Sánchez / Senior Content Developer, Statistics / zyBooks / PhD in Mathematics / Tufts University

Key authoring contributors

Anelise Guimaraes Sabbag / Assistant Professor, Statistics / California Polytechnic University
Zoe Fox / Associate Content Developer, Statistics / zyBooks / BSc in Mathematics and Statistics / University of British Columbia
Pamela Fellers / Content Developer, Statistics / zyBooks / PhD in Statistics / University of Nebraska – Lincoln

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