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BIOMETRICS<br />

1.0 INTRODUCTION<br />

1.1 Terminology<br />

2.0 STUDY DESIGN<br />

2.1 R<strong>and</strong>omization<br />

2.2 Sample Size<br />

2.3 Subsampling<br />

3.0 GRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF DATA<br />

3.1 Raw Data .<br />

3.2 Frequency Histograms ..<br />

3.3 Frequency Polygon<br />

3.4 Cumulative Frequency .<br />

3.5 Two-dimensional Graphs<br />

4.0 SAMPLE MEAN AND VARIANCE<br />

4.1 General Application .....<br />

4.2 Statistics <strong>for</strong> Stratified R<strong>and</strong>om Samples<br />

4.3 Statistics <strong>for</strong> Subsamples<br />

4.4 Rounding .<br />

5.0 TESTS OF HYPOTHESES<br />

5.1 T-test<br />

5.2 Chi Square Test<br />

5.3 F-test<br />

5.4 Analysis <strong>of</strong> Variance<br />

6.0 CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR MEANS<br />

AND VARIANCES .. .<br />

7.0 LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION<br />

7.1 Basic Concepts '" . . . .<br />

7.2 Basic Computations<br />

7.3 Tests <strong>of</strong> Hypo<strong>the</strong>ses<br />

7.4 Regression <strong>for</strong> Bivariate Data<br />

7.5 Linear Correlation<br />

8.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY .<br />

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