An introduction to probability and statistical inference /
An Introduction to Probability and Statistical Inference, Second Edition, guides you through probability models and statistical methods and helps you to think critically about various concepts. Written by award-winning author George Roussas, this book introduces readers with no prior knowledge in pr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press,
2014.
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Edición: | Second edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Some motivating examples and some fundamental concepts
- The concept of probability and some basic results
- Numerical characteristics of a random variable, some special random variables
- Joint and conditional P.D.F.'s, conditional expectation and variance, moment generating function, covariance and correlation coefficient
- Independence of random variables and some applications
- Transformation of random variables
- Some modes of convergence of random variables, applications
- An overview of statistical inference
- Point estimation
- Confidence intervals and confidence regions
- Testing hypotheses
- More about testing hypotheses
- A simple linear regression model
- Two models of analysis of variance
- Some topics in nonparametric inference.