| Preface to the Second Edition |
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| Preface to the First Edition |
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| Acknowledgments |
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Introduction to descriptive statistics |
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Measures of central location |
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3 | (15) |
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7 | (3) |
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10 | (3) |
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Capital infusions for ailing thrifts |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (2) |
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18 | (10) |
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22 | (3) |
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Damages for pain and suffering |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (8) |
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31 | (2) |
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Public school finance in Texas |
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33 | (3) |
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Measuring the disparity between two proportions |
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36 | (7) |
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Proficiency test with a disparate impact |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (14) |
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Permutations and combinations |
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43 | (10) |
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46 | (3) |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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Measuring market concentration |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (4) |
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Tracing funds for constructive trusts |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (42) |
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Some fundamentals of probability calculation |
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57 | (16) |
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Interracial couple in yellow car |
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63 | (3) |
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Independence assumption in DNA profiles |
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66 | (3) |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (4) |
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73 | (2) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (6) |
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77 | (2) |
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Bayesian proof of paternity |
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79 | (2) |
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Screening devices and diagnostic tests |
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81 | (7) |
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84 | (2) |
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86 | (2) |
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88 | (7) |
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Sentencing a heroin swallower |
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89 | (3) |
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Cheating on multiple-choice tests |
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92 | (3) |
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Foundations of probability |
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95 | (4) |
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Relevant evidence defined |
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97 | (2) |
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Some Probability Distributions |
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99 | (55) |
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Introduction to probability distributions |
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99 | (4) |
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103 | (10) |
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Discrimination in jury selection |
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105 | (1) |
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Educational nominating panel |
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106 | (1) |
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Small and nonunanimous juries in criminal cases |
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107 | (4) |
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Cross-section requirement for federal jury lists |
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111 | (2) |
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Normal distribution and a central limit theorem |
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113 | (7) |
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Alexander: Culling the jury list |
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117 | (1) |
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Castaneda: Measuring disparities |
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118 | (2) |
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Testing statistical hypotheses |
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120 | (3) |
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122 | (1) |
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Hypergeometric distribution |
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123 | (11) |
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Were the accountants negligent? |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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Election 2000: Who won Florida? |
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128 | (6) |
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134 | (7) |
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Heights of French conscripts |
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137 | (1) |
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Silver ``butterfly'' straddles |
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138 | (3) |
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141 | (7) |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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Incentive for good drivers |
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145 | (1) |
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Epidemic of cardiac arrests |
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146 | (2) |
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Geometric and exponential distributions |
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148 | (6) |
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Marine transportation of liquefied natural gas |
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150 | (1) |
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Network affiliation contracts |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (3) |
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Statistical Inference for Two Proportions |
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154 | (46) |
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Fisher's exact test of equality for two proportions |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (1) |
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The chi-squared and z-score tests for the equality of two proportions |
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157 | (9) |
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163 | (1) |
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Reallocating commodity trades |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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Confidence intervals for proportions |
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166 | (16) |
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Confounders and confidence intervals |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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Commodity exchange reports |
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177 | (1) |
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Discharge for dishonest acts |
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178 | (1) |
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Confidence interval for promotion test data |
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179 | (1) |
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Complications in vascular surgery |
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179 | (1) |
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Torture, disappearance, and summary execution in the Philippines |
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179 | (3) |
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Statistical power in hypothesis testing |
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182 | (6) |
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184 | (2) |
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Is Bendectin a teratogen? |
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186 | (1) |
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Automobile emissions and the Clean Air Act |
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187 | (1) |
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Legal and statistical significance |
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188 | (5) |
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Port Authority promotions |
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191 | (2) |
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Maximum likelihood estimation |
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193 | (7) |
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Purloined notices revisited |
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196 | (1) |
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Do microwaves cause cancer? |
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197 | (1) |
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Peremptory challenges of prospective jurors |
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197 | (3) |
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Comparing Multiple Proportions |
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200 | (22) |
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Using chi-squared to test goodness of fit |
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200 | (11) |
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202 | (2) |
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204 | (1) |
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Grand jury selection revisited |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (3) |
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209 | (2) |
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Bonferroni's inequality and multiple comparisons |
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211 | (5) |
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Wage additives and the four-fifths rule |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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Cheating on standardized multiple-choice tests revisited |
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215 | (1) |
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More measures of association: Phi-squared (&phis;2) and tau B (τB) |
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216 | (6) |
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218 | (4) |
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222 | (15) |
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Student's t-test: Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals |
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222 | (9) |
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Automobile emissions and the Clean Air Act revisited |
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226 | (1) |
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Voir dire of prospective trial jurors |
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227 | (2) |
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229 | (1) |
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Student's t-test and the Castaneda rule |
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229 | (2) |
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Analysis of variance for comparing several means |
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231 | (6) |
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235 | (2) |
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Combining Evidence Across Independent Strata |
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237 | (19) |
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Mantel-Haenszel and Fisher methods for combining the evidence |
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237 | (12) |
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245 | (1) |
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Age discrimination in employment terminations |
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246 | (3) |
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249 | (7) |
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254 | (2) |
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256 | (26) |
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The theory of random sampling |
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256 | (20) |
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Selective Service draft lotteries |
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262 | (4) |
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266 | (1) |
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266 | (2) |
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268 | (2) |
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NatraTaste versus NutraSweet |
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270 | (2) |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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Current Population Survey |
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274 | (2) |
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276 | (6) |
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277 | (5) |
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282 | (35) |
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282 | (2) |
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284 | (7) |
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287 | (4) |
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Epidemiologic principles of causation |
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291 | (26) |
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296 | (3) |
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Radioactive ``cocktails'' for pregnant women |
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299 | (3) |
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Preconception paternal irradiation and leukemia |
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302 | (6) |
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Swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barre Syndrome |
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308 | (3) |
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311 | (6) |
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317 | (22) |
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Death-density, survival, and hazard functions |
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317 | (6) |
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Valuing charitable remainders |
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320 | (1) |
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321 | (1) |
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``Lifing'' deposit accounts |
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322 | (1) |
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The proportional hazards model |
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323 | (8) |
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Age discrimination in employment terminations revisited |
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327 | (1) |
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Contaminated wells in Woburn |
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327 | (4) |
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Quantitative risk assessment |
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331 | (8) |
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Ureaformaldehyde foam insulation |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (3) |
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339 | (11) |
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339 | (3) |
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341 | (1) |
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Wilcoxon signed-rank test |
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342 | (1) |
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Voir dire of prospective trial jurors revisited |
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343 | (1) |
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343 | (5) |
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Sex discrimination in time to promotion |
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344 | (1) |
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Selection for employment from a list |
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345 | (1) |
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Sentencing by federal judges |
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346 | (2) |
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Spearman's rank correlation coefficient |
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348 | (2) |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (67) |
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Introduction to multiple regression models |
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350 | (8) |
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355 | (3) |
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Estimating and interpreting coefficients of the regression equation |
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358 | (9) |
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Western Union's cost of equity |
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361 | (1) |
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Tariffs for North Slope oil |
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362 | (1) |
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Ecological regression in vote-dilution cases |
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363 | (4) |
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Measures of indeterminacy for the regression equation |
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367 | (6) |
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Sex discrimination in academia |
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371 | (2) |
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Statistical significance of the regression coefficients |
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373 | (5) |
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Race discrimination at Muscle Shoals |
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377 | (1) |
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Explanatory factors for a regression equation |
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378 | (6) |
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Reading multiple-regression computer printout |
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384 | (12) |
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Pay discrimination in an agricultural extension service |
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386 | (6) |
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Public school financing in the State of Washington |
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392 | (3) |
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Public school financing in Pennsylvania |
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395 | (1) |
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Confidence and prediction intervals |
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396 | (6) |
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399 | (1) |
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399 | (2) |
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Challenged absentee ballots |
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401 | (1) |
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Assumptions of the regression model |
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402 | (7) |
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Transformations of variables |
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409 | (8) |
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Western Union's cost of equity revisited |
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414 | (1) |
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Sex- and race-coefficient models for Republic National Bank |
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414 | (3) |
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More Complex Regression Models |
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417 | (64) |
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417 | (16) |
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Corrugated container price-fixing |
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419 | (1) |
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Puppy Chow versus Chewy Morsels |
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420 | (2) |
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Losses from infringing sales |
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422 | (1) |
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423 | (3) |
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Fraud-on-the-market damages |
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426 | (2) |
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Effects of capital gains tax reductions |
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428 | (5) |
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433 | (7) |
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House values in the shadow of a uranium plant |
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437 | (3) |
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Alternative models in employment discrimination cases |
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440 | (4) |
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Locally weighted regression |
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444 | (3) |
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Urn models for Harris Bank |
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446 | (1) |
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Underadjustment bias in employment regressions |
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447 | (6) |
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Underadjustment in medical school |
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451 | (2) |
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453 | (5) |
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Death penalty: Does it deter murder? |
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455 | (3) |
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Logit and probit regression |
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458 | (14) |
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Mortgage lending discrimination |
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462 | (1) |
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463 | (8) |
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Deterring teenage smoking |
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471 | (1) |
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472 | (3) |
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473 | (2) |
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Jackknife, cross-validation, and bootstrap |
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475 | (6) |
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Georgia death penalty revisited |
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477 | (4) |
| Appendix I: Calculations and Comments on the Cases |
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481 | (74) |
| Appendix II: Tables |
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555 | (28) |
| Glossary of Symbols |
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583 | (2) |
| List of Cases |
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585 | (4) |
| Bibliography |
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589 | (10) |
| Subject Index |
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