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Exercises
1.1 Statistical Terms. Review a federal or state law on environmental protection and list the statistical
terms that are used.
1.2 Community Environmental Problem. Identify an environmental problem in your community
and list the variables (factors) for which data should be collected to better understand this
problem. What special properties (nonnormal distribution, nonconstant variance, etc.) do you
think data on these variables might have?
1.3 Incomplete Scientific Information. List and briefly discuss three environmental or public
health problems where science (including statistics) has not provided all the information that
legislators and judges needed (wanted) before having to make a decision.

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