
Introductory Statistics
Resources
Description
Key Features
- Unique historical perspective profiling prominent statisticians and historical events to motivate learning by providing interest and context
- Use of exercises and examples helps guide the student towards indpendent learning using real issues and real data, e.g. stock price models, health issues, gender issues, sports, scientific fraud.
- Summary/Key Terms- chapters end with detailed reviews of important concepts and formulas, key terms and definitions which are useful to students as study tools
Readership
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction to Statistics
Describing Data Sets Using Statistics to Summarize
Data Sets Probability
Discrete Random Variables
Normal Random Variables
Distributions of Sampling
Statistics Estimation Testing
Statistical Hypotheses
Hypothesis Tests Concerning Two Populations
Analysis of Variance Linear Regression
Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Tests
Nonparametric Hypotheses
Tests
Quality Control
Appendices
Product details
- No. of pages: 848
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2010
- Published: January 19, 2010
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080922102
About the Author
Sheldon Ross
