Essential Statistics

ISBN-13: 9781584880073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 384 str.

D. G. Rees

Opis

The fourth edition of this volume on statistics is updated to present information on modern statistical techniques, such as analysis of variance, and software such as Minitab. The author emphasizes the principles and assumptions underlying the statistical methods, keeping complex mathematical theory to a minimum. There are worked examples, illustrating the relevance of the methods to a broad range of disciplines.

Recenzje

"This book is a first primer in statistics... for the occasional user or newcomer to the ideas in statistics this book contains everything you will probably ever need to know."
-Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003

"Anyone who wants to begin learning statistics should be delighted with this book."
-Journal of Quality Technology
"…a very interesting introductory book on collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting data."
-Biometrics
"The information is concise and easily understood…(it) would help plan forthcoming projects."
-Hospital Doctor

Spis treści

Preface
What is Statistics?
Some Statistical Notation
Summarizing Data by Tables and by Graphical Methods
Summarizing Data by Numerical Measures
Probability
Discrete Probability Distributions
Continuous Probability Distributions
Samples and Populations
Confidence Interval Estimation
Hypothesis Testing
Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests
An Introduction to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Association of Categorical Variables
Correlation of Quantitative Variables
Regression Analysis, an Introduction
Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Appendix A Statistical Formulae
Appendix B Solutions to Worksheets
Appendix C Statistical Tables
Appendix D Glossary of Symbols
Appendix E Introduction to Minitab for Windows
Index

O autorze

D.G. Rees