A basic course in statistics
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A basic course in statistics
Arnold, 1998
4th ed
Available at 7 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [620]-621) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The importance of statistics stem from its usefulness. It is concerned with collecting and analyzing data in order to obtain a better understanding of phenomena. This edition covers all parts of the syllabus for the A-level exam and introduces university students studying statistics in the first year. Extra topics covered in the text are acceptance sampling, multiple regression, and a chapter devoted to looking at data. It also includes more exercises and references to computer-based methods.
Table of Contents
- Populations and variates
- measures of the centre of a set of observations
- samples and populations
- the measurement of variability
- looking at data
- probability
- probabilities of compound events
- discrete random variable
- expectation of a random variable
- joint distributions
- estimation
- collecting data
- significance testing
- continuous random variables
- the normal distribution
- sampling distributions of means and related quantities
- significance tests using the normal distribution
- estimation of intervals and parameters
- hypothesis tests using the chi-squared distribution
- poisson distribution
- correlation
- the analysis of variance
- simple linear regression
- multiple regression.
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