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72 Inequalities 1 74.3 The sampling distribution of the means 29

72.1 Introduction to inequalities 1 74.4 The estimation of population parameters
72.2 Simple inequalities 1 based on a large sample size 33
72.3 Inequalities involving a modulus 2 74.5 Estimating the mean of a population based
72.4 Inequalities involving quotients 3 on a small sample size 38
72.5 Inequalities involving square functions 4
72.6 Quadratic inequalities 5 75 Significance testing 42
75.1 Hypotheses 42
73 Boolean algebra and logic circuits 7 75.2 Type I and Type II errors 42
73.1 Boolean algebra and switching circuits 7
75.3 Significance tests for population means 49
73.2 Simplifying Boolean expressions 12
75.4 Comparing two sample means 54
73.3 Laws and rules of Boolean algebra 12
73.4 De Morgan’s laws 14
76 Chi-square and distribution-free tests 59
73.5 Karnaugh maps 15 76.1 Chi-square values 59
73.6 Logic circuits 19 76.2 Fitting data to theoretical distributions 60
73.7 Universal logic gates 23 76.3 Introduction to distribution-free tests 67
76.4 The sign test 68
Revision Test 20 28 76.5 Wilcoxon signed-rank test 71
76.6 The Mann-Whitney test 75
74 Sampling and estimation theories 29
74.1 Introduction 29 Revision Test 21 82
74.2 Sampling distributions 29