Nagel Says, "Why Is the Life of a Mouse Not

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Nagel says, "Why is the life of a mouse not absurd? The orbit of the moon is not absurd either, but that involves no strivings or aims at all. A mouse, however, has to work to stay alive. Yet he is not absurd, because he lacks the capacities for personal relations and social transactions that would enable him to see that he is only a mouse."

Understand the role and recommendations of the GAISE project regarding technology in statistics education.

Interpret two-way tables and perform chi-square tests for association between two categorical variables.

Understand the application and interpretation of the Poisson distribution.

Distinguish between observed and expected counts in chi-square goodness-of-fit tests.

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