General Statistics
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 1991
Book
Hardback
736 pages
978-0-471-61901-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a first course in statistics with an emphasis on statistical inference. Concepts are introduced and reinforced with examples and exercises from a wide range of fields from sports to medicine. The treatment of P values is expanded and answers to hypothesis testing are given both in P value, and in a more traditional approach. Optional sections on sampling, box-and-whisker plots, counting techniques and designs of experiments are included.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 194 mm
Weight
1276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-61901-7 (9780471619017)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. Organization of Data. Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, and Position. PROBABILITY. Probability. Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables. Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables--The Normal Distribution. STATISTICAL INFERENCE. Introduction to Statistical Inference Using the Standard Normal Distribution. Statistical Inference Using Student's t and Chi-Square Distributions. Inference Concerning Two Population Parameters. Regression and Correlation. Analysis of Variance. Analysis of Categorical Data. Nonparametric Statistics. Appendices. Answers to Selected Exercises. Subject Index.