The architecture of chance : an introduction to the logic and arithmetic of probability

Author(s)

• Lowry, Richard

Bibliographic Information

The architecture of chance : an introduction to the logic and arithmetic of probability

Richard Lowry

Oxford University Press, 1989

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 171

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780195056075

Description

Undergraduate textbooks for statistics courses in the behavioural, biological and social sciences must devote so much space to the nuts-and-bolts details of statistical methods that they have little left over for the larger conceptual framework of probability theory. This brief book attempts to fill that gap with an in-depth explanation of probability, laid out in a step-by-step fashion.

Table of Contents

• "Common sense reduced to calculation"
• The logic and arithmetic of compound probabilities
• Probability pathways and a first glance at the logic of probability assessment
• Binomial probabilities and the concept of sampling distributions
• The normal distribution - remarkable crossroad of fact and theory
• Some complex probability assessments based on the normal distribution
• A brief climb to one of the next higher levels: Student's t-distributions and the logic of estimation
• Appendix A: Table of the unit normal distribution
• Appendix B: Table of critical values of student's t-distributions.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780195056082

Description

Undergraduate textbooks for statistics courses in the behavioural, biological, and social sciences must devote so much space to the nuts-and-bolts details of statistical methods that they have little left over for the larger conceptual framework of probability theory. This brief, lucid book fills the gap with its intelligible and in-depth explanation of probability, laid out step-by-step in a clear and congenial fashion. Even the student with little background in mathematics will find it readable and accessible.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• "Common sense reduced to calculation"
• The logic and arithmetic of compound probabilities
• Probability pathways and a first glance at the logic of probability assessment
• Binomial probabilities and the concept of sampling distributions
• The normal distribution-remarkable crossroad of fact and theory
• Some complex probability assessments based on the normal distribution
• A brief climb to one of the next higher levels: Student's t-distributions and the logic of estimation
• Appendix A: Table of the unit normal distribution
• Appendix B: Table of critical values of student's t-distributions.

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Details

• NCID: BA07482173
• ISBN:
  • 0195056078
  • 0195056086
• LCCN: 88015143
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 175 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA273
  • DC19 : 519.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Probabilities
  • LCSH : Mathematical statistics