Table Of ContentIndex of Applications in Examples and Activities
Act: Activity; Ex: Example
Agriculture College Life
Grape production: Ex 3.6 Academic success of college sophomores: Ex 14.1
Strength of bark board: Ex 16.4 Advantages of multiple SAT scores in college admissions:
Tomato yield and planting density: Ex 15.12, Ex 15.13 Act 8.1
Asking questions in seminar class: Ex 6.5
Biology Back-to-college spending: Ex 3.7
College attendance: Ex 10.12
Age and flexibility: Act 5.2
College choice do-over: Ex 1.5
Age of a lobster: Ex 5.19
Comparing job offers: Ex 4.18
Bee mating behavior: Ex 3.12, Ex 3.13
Detecting plagiarism: Ex 10.9
Black bear habitat selection: Ex 5.9
Enrollments at public universities: Ex 3.15
Calling behavior of Amazonian frogs: Ex 5.22
Gender of college students: Ex 8.7
Cannibalism in wolf spiders: Ex 5.20, Ex 5.21
Graduation rates: Ex 1.10, Ex 13.5, Ex 13.10
Charitable behavior of chimpanzees: Ex 9.10, Ex 11.7
Graduation rates and student-related expenditures: Ex 5.1
Chirp rate for crickets: Ex 10.15
Graduation rates at small colleges: Ex 14.6, Ex 14.7, Ex 14.8,
Distance deer mice will travel for food: Ex 5.7, Ex 5.10
Ex 14.9
Dominant and nondominant hands: Act 3.2
How safe are college campuses? Ex 1.6
Egg weights: Ex 7.31
Impact of internet and television use on college student read-
Head circumference at birth: Ex 4.19
ing habits: Ex 9.2
Loon chick survival factors: Ex 5.17
Importance of college education: Ex 9.4
Predator inspection in guppies: Ex 6.18
Internet use by college students: Ex 9.1
Recognizing your roommate’s scent: Ex 7.18
Math SAT score distribution: Ex 3.14
Reflexes with dominant and nondominant hands: Act 11.2
Misreporting grade point average: Ex 3.17
Repertoire size and body characteristics of nightingales:
Money spent on textbooks: Ex 8.1
Ex 5.23
Predicting graduation rates: Ex 5.13
Scorpionfly courtship: Ex 8.4
Roommate satisfaction: Ex 15.7
Shark length and jaw width: Ex 13.11, Ex 13.12
Students with jumper cables: Ex 7.22
Spider phobia: Ex 1.4
Study habits of college seniors: Ex 3.5
Time required to complete registration: Ex 7.29
Business and Economics Travel distance to college: Ex 3.1
Tuition at public universities: Ex 3.9
Application processing times: Ex 7.8
Verbal SAT scores: Ex 3.21
Cable services: Ex 6.22
Visits to class web site: Ex 4.3, Ex 4.4
Car sales: Ex 7.1
Christmas Price Index: Ex 3.22
Cost of Big Macs: Ex 4.7, Ex 4.8, Ex 4.12 Demography and Population
Cost of energy bars: Ex 14.11
Characteristics
Cost of residential air-conditioning: Ex 15.8, Ex 15.9
Credit cards paid in full: Ex 7.21 County population sizes: Ex 4.2
Daily wasted time at work: Ex 10.14 Head circumferences: Act 1.2
Education level and income: Ex 3.23 Heights and weights of American women: Ex 5.8
Express mail volume: Ex 7.35 Heights of college athletes: Ex 1.1
Hybrid car sales: Ex 12.3 Heights of mothers: Ex 4.17
Licensing example attempts: Ex 7.9 Hitchhiker’s thumb: Ex 6.17
Mortgage choices: Ex 6.16 Median ages in 2030: Ex 3.10
Predicting house prices: Ex 14.5 Newborn birth weights: Ex 7.27
Price of fish: Ex 14.13 Percentage of population with higher education degrees:
Prices of industrial properties: Ex 14.17, Ex 14.19 Ex 4.9, Ex 4.10
Resume typos: Ex 3.3 Two-child families: Ex 6.14
Starting salaries of business school graduates: Ex 16.11, Women’s heights and number of siblings: Act 13.1
Ex 16.12
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Education and Child Development Ergonomic characteristics of stool designs: Ex 15.10,
Ex 15.11
After-school activities: Ex 6.11
Garbage truck processing times: Ex 7.30
Chess lessons and memory improvement: Ex 11.6
GFI switches: Ex 6.12
Childcare for preschoolers: Ex 4.15
Lifetime of compact florescent lightbulbs: Ex 10.2
College plans of high school seniors: Ex 7.4
On-time package delivery: Ex 10.18
Combining exam scores: Ex 7.16
Paint flaws: Ex 7.6
Helping hands: Ex 2.7, 2.9
Testing for flaws: Ex 7.11, Ex 7.12
IQ scores: Ex 4.16, Ex 7.28
Predictors of writing competence: Ex 14.4
Marketing and Consumer Behavior
School enrollment in Northern and Central Africa: Ex 3.11
Standardized test scores: Ex 4.14, Ex 10.16 Car choices: Ex 6.10
Students’ knowledge of geography: Act 3.1 Energy efficient refrigerators: Ex 7.5
Television viewing habits of children: Ex 3.16 High-pressure sales tactics: Ex 16.13
Impact of food labels: Ex 10.8
Environmental Science Online security: Ex 7.20
Satisfaction with cell phone service: Ex 4.6
Cosmic radiation: Ex 9.7
Lead in tap water: Ex 10.7
Medical Science
Rainfall frequency distributions for Albuquerque: Ex 3.19
River water velocity and distance from shore: Ex 5.16 Apgar scores: Ex 7.10, Ex 7.13
Soil and sediment characteristics: Ex 14.12, Ex 14.14, Affect of long work hours on sleep: Ex 11.10
Ex 14.16 Births and the lunar cycle: Ex 12.1, Ex 12.2
Water conservation: Ex 10.10 Blood platelet volume: Ex 8.2
Water quality: Ex 1.2 Blood pressure and kidney disease: Ex 16.5
Blood test for ovarian cancer: Ex 10.6
Food Science Cardiovascular fitness of teens: Ex 10.11
Cerebral volume and ADHD: Ex 11.1
Calorie consumption at fast food restaurants: Ex 2.2
Chronic airflow obstruction: Ex 16.9
Fat content of hot dogs: Ex 8.6
Contracting hepatitis from blood transfusion: Ex 8.8, Ex 8.9
Fish food: Ex 5.15
Cooling treatment after oxygen deprivation in newborns:
Pomegranate juice and tumor growth: Ex 5.5
Ex 2.5
Tannin concentration in wine: Ex 5.2, Ex 5.6
Diagnosing tuberculosis: Ex 6.15
Drive-through medicine: Ex 9.8
Leisure and Popular Culture
Effect of talking on blood pressure: Ex 11.4
Car preferences: Ex 6.1 Effects of ethanol on sleep time: Ex 15.6
Do U Txt?: Ex 1.7 Evaluating disease treatments: Ex 10.3
iPod shuffles: Ex 7.7 Facial expression and self-reported pain level: Ex 12.7
Life insurance for cartoon characters: Ex 2.3 Growth hormone levels and diabetes: Ex 16.10
Number of trials required to complete game: Ex 7.2 Hip-to-waist ratio and risk of heart attack: Ex 14.2
Probability a Hershey’s Kiss will land on its base: Act 6.1 Hormones and body fat: Ex 15.4, Ex 15.5
Selecting cards: Ex 6.20 Lead exposure and brain volume: Ex 5.12
Selection of contest winners: Ex 6.7 Lyme disease: Ex 6.27
Tossing a coin: Ex 6.8 Markers for kidney disease: Ex 7.34
Twitter words: Act 1.1 Maternal age and baby’s birth weight: Ex 13.2
Medical errors: Ex 6.9
Parental smoking and infant health: Ex 16.2, Ex 16.3
Manufacturing and Industry
Passive knee extension: Ex 4.1
Bottled soda volumes: Ex 8.5 Platelet volume and heart attack risk: Ex 15.1, Ex 15.2,
Comprehensive strength of concrete: Ex 7.14 Ex 15.3
Computer configurations: Ex 6.19 Premature births: Ex 7.36
Computer sales: Ex 7.19 Sleep duration and blood leptin level: Ex 13.13
Corrosion of underground pipe coatings: Ex 15.14 Slowing the growth rate of tumors: Ex 10.5
Durable press rating of cotton fabric: Ex 14.18 Stroke mortality and education: Ex 12.8
DVD player warranties: Ex 6.24 Surviving a heart attack: Ex 6.13
Engineering stress test: Ex 7.3 Time perception and nicotine withdrawal: Ex 10.13
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Treating dyskinesia: Ex 16.8 Nicotine content of cigarettes: Ex 10.17
Treatment for acute mountain sickness: Act 2.5 Safety of bicycle helmets: Ex 5.3
Ultrasound in treatment of soft-tissue injuries: Ex 11.5, Salmonella in restaurant eggs: Act 7.2
Ex 11.8 Teenage driver citations and traffic school: Ex 6.23
Video games and pain management: Act 2.4
Vitamin B12 levels in human blood: Ex 16.7 Sports
Waiting time for cardiac procedures in Canada: Ex 9.9
Age and marathon times: Ex 5.4, Ex 5.14
Wart removal methods: Ex 11.9
Calling a toss at a football game: Ex 6.6
Concussions in collegiate sports: Ex 12.4, Ex 12.5
Physical Sciences
Fairness of Euro coin-flipping in European sports:
Rainfall data: Ex 7.33 Act 6.2
Snow cover and temperature: Ex 13.8 Helium-filled footballs: Act 11.1
Wind chill factor: Ex 14.3 “Hot hand” in basketball: Act 6.3
Losing at golf: Ex 6.2, Ex 6.4
Politics and Public Policy NBA player salaries: Ex 4.5, Ex 4.13
Olympic figure skating: Ex 3.20
Fair hiring practices: Ex 6.29
Racing starts in competitive swimming: Ex 16.6
Opinions on freedom of speech: Ex 11.11
Soccer goalie action bias: Ex 6.26
Predicting election outcomes: Ex 13.3, Ex 13.6, Ex 13.7
Tennis ball diameters: Ex 10.1
Recall petition signatures: Act 9.3
Time to first goal in hockey: Ex 8.3
Requests for building permits: Ex 6.31
Treadmill time to exhaustion and ski time of biathletes:
School board politics: Ex 14.10
Ex 13.4, Ex 13.9
Support for affirmative action: Ex 9.1, Ex 9.4
Wrestlers’ weight loss by headstand: Ex 13.1
Psychology, Sociology,
Surveys and Opinion Polls
and Social Issues
Are cell phone users different?: Ex 2.1
Benefits of acting out: Ex 1.3 Collecting and summarizing numerical data: Act 2.2
Color and perceived taste: Act 12.2 Designing a sampling plan: Facebook friending: Act 2.1
Estimating sizes: Act 1.3 Selecting a random sample: Ex 2.2
Extrasensory perception: Ex 6.33
Gender and salary: Ex 11.2 Transportation
Golden rectangles: Ex 4.11
Accidents by bus drivers: Ex 3.18
Hand-holding couples: Ex 6.30
Airborne times for San Francisco to Washington D.C. flight:
Internet addiction: Ex 6.28
Ex 9.3
Motivation for revenge: Ex 2.4
Airline luggage weights: Ex 7.17
One-boy family planning: Ex 6.32
Airline passenger weights: Act 4.2
Reading emotions: Ex 11.3
Automobile accidents by occupation: Ex 3.8
Stroop effect: Act 2.2
Comparing gasoline additives: Ex 2.10
Subliminal messages: Ex 2.5
Freeway traffic: Ex 7.15
Weight regained proportions for three follow-up methods:
Fuel efficiency of automobiles: Ex 16.1
Ex 12.6
Lost airline luggage: Ex 6.25
Motorcycle helmets: Ex 1.8, Ex 1.9
Public Health and Safety
On-time airline flights: Ex 10.4
Careless or aggressive driving: Ex 9.5 Predicting transit times: Ex 14.15
Effect of cell phone distraction: Ex 2.8 Turning directions on freeway off-ramp: Ex 6.3
Effects of McDonald’s hamburger sales: Act 2.3
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