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Welcome
Course name
Faculty name
YOUR COURSE MATERIALS
Utts/Heckard:
Mind on Statistics, 3e
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– 30% more exercises of all skill levels, including over 350 Basic Exercises which focus on practice and review.
– Chapters 9-13—which contain the core material on sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing—have been reorganized.
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Stat 101, section 6, Fall 2005
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Stat 101, section 6, Fall 2005
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Utts, Mind on Statistics, 3e
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ANYTHING TO HELP STUDENTS WITHOUT COMPUTERS?
— Activities Workbook
These activities guide you through key features of the text, help you understand statistical concepts, provide hands-on data collection and interpretation team-work, include exercises with tips incorporated for solution strategies, and provide bonus dataset activities.
ANYTHING TO HELP STUDENTS WITHOUT COMPUTERS?
— Student Solutions Manual
Intended to supplement the brief answers for selected exercises provided in the back of the book. It includes fully worked-out solutions for those exercises, and also provides hints, tips, and additional interpretation for specific exercises.
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