Belmont: Wadsworth, 1989. — 307 p.
The Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability of the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Essays Classified by Data Sources
Essays Classified by Statistical Tools
Our Biologic World
The biggest public health experiment ever
Safety of anesthetics
The Metro firm trials and ongoing patient randomization
A health insurance experiment
Cigarette price, smoking, and excise tax policy
Does inheritance matter in disease?
The plight of the whales
The importance of being human
Our Political World
Statistical proof of employment discrimination
Statistics in jury selection
Measuring the effects of social innovations by means of time series
Election night on television
Our Social World
Deciding authorship
Children's recall of pictorial information
The meaning of words
The sizes of things
How accountants save money by sampling
Preliminary evaluation of a new food product
Statistical determination of numerical color tolerances
Making essay test scores fairer with statistics
Statistics, sports, and some other things
The consumer price index
How to count better
How the nation's employment and unemployment estimates are made
The development and analysis of economic indicators
Our Physical World
Optimization and the traveling salesman problem
Estimating the chance of large earthquakes by radiocarbon dating and statistical modeling
Very short range weather forecasting using automated observations
Statistics, the Sun, and the stars