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A basic course in statistics

G.M. Clarke and D. Cooke

Arnold, 1998

4th ed

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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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Details

  • NCID
    BA42237826
  • ISBN
    • 0340719958
  • LCCN
    98028794
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiv, 672 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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