General supplements

Data sets
Additional Chapters
Powerpoint Slides
Answer Manuals
Computer Manuals
Quicktime Movies
Teaching & Assessment
Slide-making

Chapter supplements

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3
Ch 4 | Ch 5 | Ch 6
Ch 7 | Ch 8 | Ch 9
Ch10 | Ch11 | Ch12

• Errata
• The Statistical Tables (as a 337 Kb pdf file)
• DATA SET FILES     [Browse   Download for: PC, Mac, unix]
• ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS
• Chapter 13: Control Charts
• Chapter 14: Time Series
• Chapter 15: Multiple Regression. (360KB)
  This draft is complete essentially complete. It needs a few sets of Section Exercises and a set of Review Exercises. We welcome comments and suggestions. The exercises can be completed in fairly short order if you are ready to use it. Otherwise we have other desperate stuff to do!
• COMING SOON The Use of Transformations
• COMING SOON Odds Ratios and Logistic Regression
• POWERPOINT SLIDES.
            Self-extracting archive for PC :  (all slides, 3.2MB)
             Binhexed self-extracting archives for Mac :
                (Chs 1--4, 3.7 MB);   (Chs 5--8, 3.4 MB);   (Chs 9--12, 5.8 MB);

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• INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL. (Answers to all exercises as .pdf files)
             Contents;    Ch01to02;    Ch03to04; Ch05to06;   
             Ch07to08;    Ch09to10;    Ch11to12
• STUDENT MANUAL. (Answers to internal exercises and odd-numbered review exercises as .pdf files)
             Contents;    Ch01to02;    Ch03to04; Ch05to06;   
             Ch07to08;    Ch09to10;    Ch11to12

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• EXCEL SUPPLEMENT     by Matt Regan (54 pages, pdf file,  404KB)
• MINITAB SUPPLEMENT   by Matt Regan (74 pages, pdf file,  685KB)
• RWeb IMPLEMENTATION   by Charlie Geyer, University of Minnesota
  [This is not a manual but a link to Charlie's website where he is currently teaching a Chance Encounters based course using RWeb for all of the computing. This site is contantly expanding as he gets further through the course. See in particular some very interesting "Lab Section Examples" and "Lecture Section Examples".]
• STATA Notes   by Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham, UK   (n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk)
• QUICKTIME MOVIES
• Std error of the mean  (559KB)
• Confidence intervals  (842KB)
• Testing I (Pratt and Woodruff)  (456KB)
• Testing II (Cavendish)  (224KB) -- This one doesn't have an intro added yet
• MORE SCREENCAM MOVIES  are available from Matt Regan (m.regan@auckland.ac.nz) [Many of these illustrate the use of Minitab and Excel.]
• TEACHING MATERIALS FROM THE AUCKLAND 1ST-YEAR TEAM
• Assignments
• Tutorials
• Examinations and tests

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• SLIDE-MAKING RESOURCES
• All tables from "Chance Encounters" in Excel format
            Self-extracting archive for   (PC : 0.9MB)
            Binhexed self-extracting archives for Mac (1.2 MB)
• Soon to come the Exercises in Word Format

CHAPTER SUPPLEMENTS

Chapter 1

• Some further uses of surveys (supplement to Section 1.1.5)
• Some further uses of statistics (supplement to Section 1.4)
• Using random numbers (includes exercises)
• Further Review Exercises for Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

• The density trace (short supplement to Section 2.3.3 explaining Fig. 2.3.9(d))
• Effects of changing center and scale (includes exercises)

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Chapter 4

• A complete alternative probability Chapter. This is a more traditional treatment of probability with:
  • More emphasis on formulas
  • Additional Case Studies

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Chapter 5

• A complete alternative discrete random variables Chapter. This is a more traditional and more extensive treatment of discrete random variables with more emphasis on the use of formulas. In addition to the Binomial distribution, it includes:
  • Geometric distribution
  • Hypergeometric distribution
  • Poisson distribution
  • Additional Case Studies
  • Related problems
  Some teachers may wish to distribute excerpts from this chapter.

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Chapter 7

• The sample proportion and the Central Limit Theorem. A supplement to Section 7.3.1 relating the Normal approximation for the distribution of the sample proportion and the Central Limit Theorem.

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Chapter 8

• The 10% Rule (supplement to Section 8.3)
• Sample sizes for a proportion (a more detailed exposition of Section 8.6.1)
• Case Study on question wording effects in surveys

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Chapter 9

• Case Study on question wording effects in surveys
• An extended exercise introducing ideas about sample size and power in tests

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Chapter 10

• The Wilcoxon test (includes Exercises and Wilcoxon-distribution Tables)
• The F-test by hand calculator (includes Exercises and F-distribution Tables)

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Chapter 11

• Chi-square tests for 2-way tables (supplement to Section 11.2)
  • Intuitive derivations of expected counts and degrees of freedom
  • Equivalence of tests for homogeneity and independence

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