
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
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Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
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Chapter 1.1, Problem 5PB
GSS for subject you pick At the GSS website, click Standard Codebook under Codebooks and then click Sequential Variable List. Find a subject that interests you and look up a relevant GSS code name to enter as the row variable. Summarize the results that you obtain.
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