Preface ix
1 Introduction: It Seemed Like the Right Thing to Do at the Time 1
2 The Type A Diet: Sampling Strategies to Eliminate Confounding and Reduce Your Waistline 9
3 Conservatives, Liberals, and Other Political Pawns: How to Gain Power and Influence with Sample Size Calculations 31
4 Bunco, Bricks, and Marked Cards: Chi ]Squared Tests and How to Beat a Cheater 47
5 Why It Pays To Be a Stable Master: Sumo Wrestlers and Other Robust Statistics 69
6 Five ]Hour Marriages: Continuous Distributions, Tests for Normality, and Juicy Hollywood Scandals 91
7 Believe It or Don’t: Using Outlier Detection to Find the Weirdest of the Weird 109
8 The Battle of the Movie Monsters, Round Two: Ramping Up Hypothesis Tests with Nonparametric Statistics 123
9 Models, Murphy’s Law, and Public Humiliation: Regression Rules to Live By 139
Appendix A Critical Values for the Standard Normal Distribution 163
Appendix B Critical Values for the T-Distribution 165
Appendix C Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution 167
Appendix D Critical Values for Grubbs’ Test 169
Appendix E Critical Values for Wilcoxson signed rank test: small sample sizes 171
Glossary 173
Index 185