
Maths in Action - Advanced Higher Statistics 1
Nelson Thornes Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 17. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-17-431544-5 (ISBN)
Description
This work features a straight forward route through the course with complete and ordered coverage of all units. There are numerous questions for practice and consolidation. It provides thorough preparation and end-of-unit and end of course assessments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-17-431544-5 (9780174315445)
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Content
Part 1 Probability: random experiments and sample spaces; events; rules of probability; equally likely outcomes; permutations and combinations; conditional probability and independence; Bayes' theorem; statistics in action - diagnostic testing in medicine. Part 2 Random variables: review of discrete random variables; laws of expectation and variance; the binomial distribution; the Poisson distribution; approximating the binomial with the Poisson; review of continuous random variables; the normal distribution; combining normal random variables; approximating the binomial with the normal; statistics in action -modelling data. Part 3 Sampling: populations and samples; simple random sampling; the distribution of sample means; the central limit theorem; a confidence interval for a population mean; a confidence interval for a population proportion; stratified random sampling; cluster sampling; further sampling methods; statistics in action - sampling.