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📚 Introduction to Modern Statistics - A college-level open-source textbook with a modern approach highlighting multivariable relationships and simulation-based inference.

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  • Exercise 1 Hello Data
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#544 ·

  • Reconsider one-sided tests
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    v3

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#543 ·

  • proposed renaming of "Bootstrap test for a proportion" Chapter 16.1
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#542 · 1 comment ·

  • marunims
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#541 ·

  • Getting prompted to sign in
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#540 · 1 comment ·

  • Polyfill.js attack
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#539 · 3 comments ·

  • Typo - Chp 13, Sec 13.5.1, section section
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 128 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    chp12 chp13

    OpenIntroStat/ims#538 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Typo - Chp A, Sec 24, mismatch of answers in Exercise 24.17 solution
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    OpenIntroStat/ims#537 · 1 assignee ·

  • Typo - Chp A, Sec 13, numbering of solutions
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    OpenIntroStat/ims#536 · 1 assignee ·

  • Typo - Chp 5, Sec 5.7,
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    chp5

    OpenIntroStat/ims#535 · 1 assignee ·

  • Incorrect variable name
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#534 ·

  • Typo - Chp 18, Sec 2, [extra word in exercise 18.14, parasitic worms]
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 158 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    OpenIntroStat/ims#533 · 1 assignee ·

  • Typo - Chp 22, Sec 1, three (not four) positions being compared
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 159 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    OpenIntroStat/ims#532 · 1 assignee ·

  • v2, Ch7, p 113, six graphs and correlations
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#529 ·

  • example in 13.2.4 should be updated
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    chp13

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#527 ·

  • issue with missing values in Exercise 25 in chapter 5
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#526 ·

  • Errors in solution for Question 25 in Chapter 5
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#525 ·

  • exchangeability
    May be free again @hardin47 claimed this 336 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    chp12 v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#517 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Potential new example for chapter 19
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    chp19

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#501 ·

  • Wrong numbering in Chapter 13 solutions
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#499 ·

  • Chp 13 solutions numbering
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 550 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    OpenIntroStat/ims#497 · 1 assignee ·

  • Typo - chapter 7.2.6 & 9.1 (?)
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 557 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    chp7 chp9

    OpenIntroStat/ims#496 · 1 assignee ·

  • Typo - Chp [15], Lab 1, [Questionable Use of count() Function]
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 711 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    OpenIntroStat/ims#489 · 1 assignee ·

  • "holding other variables constant"
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    chp8

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#487 ·

  • Exercise Answer Errors:
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    OpenIntroStat/ims#483 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • fantastic dataset and study on astrological meaning
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    v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#477 · 1 assignee ·

  • Revise figure 3.1
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    chp3

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#476 ·

  • new exercise for regression setting
    May be free again @hardin47 claimed this 886 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    chp7 v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#465 · 1 assignee ·

  • check / add guided practices and examples
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    v3

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#449 ·

  • Chp 12.1 medical consultant -> commute on car vs. not car
    May be free again @mine-cetinkaya-rundel claimed this 1039 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    chp12 v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#409 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • keeping track of issues with data ideas
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    chp12 chp16 chp20 chp21 v3

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#407 · 1 comment ·

  • update all gss problems
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    v3

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#406 · 3 comments ·

  • Exercises in chp 1 and 2 that ask about variable types
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    v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#403 · 1 assignee ·

  • chp 9 - new example to frame the section
    May be free again @hardin47 claimed this 1186 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    chp9 v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#317 · 1 assignee ·

  • chp 11 -- new example to frame the section
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    chp11 v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#316 · 1 assignee ·

  • Update code to use tidymodels from caret
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    chp25 chp26 v3

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#308 ·

  • two cultures
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    v3

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenIntroStat/ims#306 · 1 comment ·

  • Epub format
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    quarto v1-update

    OpenIntroStat/ims#72 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Data visualization types to add
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    chp2 chp4 chp5 v3

    OpenIntroStat/ims#34 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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