Statistics for Dummies (54 page)

U.S. population data, U.S. Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0038.pdf
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NBA player salaries:
http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_21.shtml
.

Making friends in cyberspace: Parks and Floyd (1996),
Journal of Communication
46(1), 80–97.

Household income, U.S. Census Bureau,
Money Income in the United States
, 2001, pp. 26–27.

American Community Survey, Columbus OH 2001:
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/Profiles/Single/2001/ACS/Narrative/155/NP15500US3918000049.htm
.

U.S. Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov
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Connecticut Powerball Lottery:
http://www.ctlottery.org/powerball.htm
.

No sources were referenced in this chapter.

Consumer expenditure survey standard errors:
http://www.bls.gov/cex/2001/stnderror/age.pdf
.

Bureau of Labor Statistics:
http://www.bls.gov
.

ACT scores and standard deviations (2002):
http://www.act.org/news/data/02/pdf/t6-7-8.pdf
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ACT tables 2002
http://www.act.org/news/data/02/pdf/data.pdf
.

The Gallup Organization:
http://www.gallup.com
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Median household income confidence intervals:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/income01/statemhi.html
; full report:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p60-218.pdf
.

Prevalence of teen drug use: "Monitoring the Future", sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and conducted by the University of Michigan.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/2002data-drugs
.

No sources were referenced in this chapter.

Varicose veins:
Woman's Day
, Feb 11, 2003 p. 28.

Baby sleep:
Woman's Day
, Feb 11, 2003, p. 120 "And So, to Bed" by Loraine Stern.

Prevalence of teen drug use: "Monitoring the Future", sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and conducted by the University of Michigan.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/2002data-drugs
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The Gallup Organization:
http://www.gallup.com
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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (crash tests):
http://www.hwysafety.org/default.htm
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Consumer Reports:
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp
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Good Housekeeping Institute (seal of approval):
http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping
.

Dr. Ruth:
Family Circle
, 2/1/97 page 102. "Full Circle."

Adderall:
Woman's Day
, Feb 11, 2003, Advertisement following page 110. (Shire U.S. Inc.)

The Gallup Organization:
http://www.gallup.com
.

Gallup's Pollwatcher's Guide:
http://www.gallup.com/Publications/pollwatcher.asp
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The Harris Poll:
http://vr.harrispollonline.com/register
.

Zogby International:
http://www.zogby.com
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American Medical Association:
http://www.ama-assn.org
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National Rifle Association:
http://www.nra.org
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U.S. Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov
.

CBS celebrity activism survey:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/06/eveningnews/main543046.shtml
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CBS Internet dating survey:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/17/opinion/polls/main540870.shtml
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CBS pain survey:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/28/opinion/polls/main538259.shtml
.

Health surfing on the Web:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/18/watercooler.ap/
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Investor optimism:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030224.asp
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Worst cars of the millennium:
http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Worst-Cars/results5.html
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Riding with drunk drivers:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=2345367
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Children's health care:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/60/67060.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}
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Crime Victimization Survey:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus01.pdf
.

Breast Cancer:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/36/1728_50583.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}
.

Cellphone use:
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=23371&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=23051&bmUID=1047262402709
.

Cyber crime:
http://www.gocsi.com/press/20020407.html
.

Sexual harassment:
http://womensissues.about.com/library/blsexharassmentstats.htm
.

Telling lies:
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
, 1997, v. 27, 12 pp. 1048-1062, by Ester Backbier, Johan Hoogstraten, and Katharina Meerum Terwogt-Kouwenhoven.

National Cancer Institute:
http://cancer.gov
.

Marijuana and chemotherapy:
The New York Times
, September 16, 1975.

Information on clinical trials, U.S. National Institutes of Health:
http://www.ClinicalTrials.gov
.

HIV placebo:
The Manhattan Mercury
(Manhattan, KS), September 21, 1997.

Study linking older mothers and long life:
Kansas City Star
, September 11, 1997.

Prevalence of teen drug use: "Monitoring the Future", sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, and conducted by the University of Michigan.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/2002data-drugs
.

National Institutes of Health (NIH):
http://www.nih.gov
.

Television Watching and Other Sedentary Behaviors in Relation to Risk of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women:
Journal of the American Medical Association
(2003) Volume 289, pp. 1785-1791, (NIH News Release).

Anger expression inversely related to heart attack and stroke:
Psychosomatic Medicine
(2003), 65(1), pp. 100-110, (NIH News Release).

Light to moderate drinking and heart attack reduction in men:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2003/niaaa-08.htm
, (NIH News Release).

Early treatment deters glaucoma:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2002/nei-14.htm
, (NIH News Release).

Zinc for colds isn't a good idea: "Healthy Habits — that Aren't",
Woman's Day
, February 11, 2003.

Crickets and temperature:

• Journal article,
  Garden Gate
  , Issue Number 5:
  http://www.gardengate_magazine.com/tips/25tip13.html
  .
  

• "Cricket Chirp Converter"
  :
  National Weather Service Forecast Office,
  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/elp/wxcalc/cricketconvert.html
  .
  

• Cricket chirp data: many different data sets exist for this example; here's the source most statisticians use: Pierce, George W.,
  The Songs of the Insects
  , (1949), Harvard University Press, pp. 12–21. Note: I used only a subset of this data for my example (for illustrative purposes only).
  

• For more discussion on crickets and temperature (and to hear crickets chirping while you read):
  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~genchem/0102/spring/6winn/cricket.html
  .
  

Aspirin prevents polyps in colon cancer patients: National Cancer Institute's Cancer and Leukemia Group, led by Electra Paskett, The Ohio State University
http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/aspirin.htm
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Ice cream and murders (New York City): a good article to start investigating this subject and related issues is Spellman, B. A., & Mandel, D. R. (2003). For more on the psychology of causal reasoning, see Nadel, L. (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
(Vol. 1, pp. 461-466).

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
http://www.fda.gov
.

Total Quality Management (TQM):
http://www.6sigma.us
.

W. Edwards Deming:
Out of the Crisis
(Center for Advanced Engineering Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
http://www.deming.org
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Toothpaste tube filling machines:
http://www.packagingdigest.com/articles/199710/52.html
.

Tube-filling FAQ (frequently asked questions) source:
http://www.keyinternational.com/FAQ_Tube_Filling.html#Q4
.

Tube Council:
http://www.tube.org
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