1st Edition

An Introduction to Statistical Inference and Its Applications with R

By Michael W. Trosset Copyright 2009
496 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

496 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

496 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Emphasizing concepts rather than recipes, An Introduction to Statistical Inference and Its Applications with R provides a clear exposition of the methods of statistical inference for students who are comfortable with mathematical notation. Numerous examples, case studies, and exercises are included. R is used to simplify computation, create figures, and draw pseudorandom samples—not to perform... Read more

Experiments. Mathematical Preliminaries. Probability. Discrete Random Variables. Continuous Random Variables. Quantifying Population Attributes. Data. Lots of Data. Inference. 1-Sample Location Problems. 2-Sample Location Problems. The Analysis of Variance. Goodness-of-Fit. Association. Simple Linear Regression. Simulation-Based Inference. R: A Statistical Programming Language. Index.

Biography

Michael W. Trosset is Professor of Statistics and Director of the Indiana Statistical Consulting Center at Indiana University.