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Chapter 1: Introduction to Statistics

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In Exercises 29鈥36, answer the given questions, which are related to percentages.

Percentages in Advertising: An ad for Big Skinny wallets included the statement that one of their wallets 鈥渞educes your filled wallet size by 50%鈥200%.鈥 What is wrong with this statement?

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Replication In what specific way was replication applied in the study cited in Exercise 1?

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In Exercises 29鈥36, answer the given questions, which are related to percentages.

Percentages in Advertising Continental Airlines ran ads claiming that lost baggage is 鈥渁n area where we鈥檝e already improved 100% in the past six months.鈥 What is wrong with this statement?

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In Exercises 33鈥36, identify which of these designs is most appropriate for the given experiment: completely randomized design, randomized block design, or matched pairs design

Lipitor A clinical trial of Lipitor treatments is being planned to determine whether its effects on diastolic blood pressure are different for men and women.

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In Exercises 29鈥36, answer the given questions, which are related to percentages.

Percentages in Advertising Continental Airlines ran ads claiming that lost baggage is 鈥渁n area where we鈥檝e already improved 100% in the past six months.鈥 What is wrong with this statement?

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Sampling Method The patients included in the study cited in Exercise 1 were those 鈥渨ho sought care for low-back pain directly or in response to a community advertisement.鈥 What type of sampling best describes the way in which the 1643 subjects were chosen: simple random sample, systematic sample, convenience sample, stratified sample, cluster sample? Does the method of sampling appear to adversely affect the quality of the results?

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In Exercises 29鈥36, answer the given questions, which are related to percentages.

Percentages in Advertising A New York Times editorial criticized a chart caption that described a dental rinse as one that 鈥渞educes plaque on teeth by over 300%.鈥 What is wrong with this statement?

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In Exercises 33鈥36, identify which of these designs is most appropriate for the given experiment: completely randomized design, randomized block design, or matched pairs design

West Nile Vaccine Currently, there is no approved vaccine for the prevention of infection by West Nile virus. A clinical trial of a possible vaccine is being planned to include subjects treated with the vaccine while other subjects are given a placebo.

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In Exercises 29鈥36, answer the given questions, which are related to percentages.

Percentages in Advertising A New York Times editorial criticized a chart caption that described a dental rinse as one that 鈥渞educes plaque on teeth by over 300%.鈥 What is wrong with this statement?

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In Exercises 29鈥36, answer the given questions, which are related to percentages.

Percentages in Negotiations When the author was negotiating a contract for the faculty and administration at a college, a dean presented the argument that if faculty receive a 4% raise and administrators receive a 4% raise, that鈥檚 an 8% raise and it would never be approved. What鈥檚 wrong with that argument?

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