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Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences third edition

Susan A. Nolan Thomas E. Heinzen

Seton Hall University William Paterson University

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For my mother-in-law, Olga Stojadinović Bojanić

—SUSAN NOLAN

To the person who had the best idea that anyone ever had:
Charles Darwin

—TOM HEINZEN