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This brief yet comprehensive text covers the essentials of experimental design used by applied researchers in solving problems in the field. It is appropriate for a variety of experimental methods courses found in engineering and statistics departments. Students learn to use applied statistics for planning, running, and analyzing an experiment. The text includes 350+ problems taken from the author's actual industrial consulting experiences to give students valuable practice with real data and problem solving. The use of the computer is promoted and SAS (Statistical Analysis System) computer programs are incorporated to facilitate analysis. Coverage of the analysis of residuals, the concepts of resolution in fractional replications, the Plackett-Burman designs, and Taguchi techniques isnew to this edition. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Saturday Life' is a novel about a girl named Sardonia who hops from one obsession to another...read more

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Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English. The Clear Speech, Third Edition, Class Audio Program contains a broad selection of activities. These include a variety of listening tasks as well as dialogues and dictations filled with examples of key pronunciation features. Also included in the program is the Clear Listening Test.

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Returning to the Irish village of Ballymurroe one year after honeymooning there, John and Ann Milne are astonished when the once-friendly townspeople they knew greet them with hostility and two of their friends vanish. Reprint.