Statistics in theory and practice /

Aimed at readers without a specialist scientific background, this monograph describes the theory underlying classical statistical methods. Readers with some familiarity of the standard tests will learn more about their strengths, weaknesses and domains of applicability

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lupton, Robert, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.
Subjects:
Mathematical statistics.
Statistique mathématique.
31.73 mathematical statistics.
MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.
Statistiek.
Estatistica aplicada.
Statistique mathématique > Problèmes et exercices.
Educational tools (form)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preliminaries
  • Some common probability distributions
  • Distributions related to the Gaussian
  • Sampling
  • Distributions of sample statistics
  • Bayes' theorem and maximum likelihood
  • Confidence intervals
  • Hypothesis testing
  • The theory of maximum likelihood estimators
  • Least squares fitting for linear models
  • Hypothesis testing in the linear model
  • Rank correlation coefficients
  • Tests of fit
  • Robust tests for means.

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