388 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
388 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
384 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
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An introductory text for students taking a first course in statistics-in fields as diverse as engineering, business, chemistry, and biology-Essential Statistics: Fourth Edition thoroughly updates and enhances the hugely successful third edition. It presents new information on modern statistical techniques such as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and software such as MINITAB™ for WINDOWS. An... Read more
Preface
What is Statistics?
Some Statistical Notation
Summarizing Data by Tables and by Graphical Methods
Summarizing Data by Numerical Measures
Probability
Discrete Probability Distributions
Continuous Probability Distributions
Samples and Populations
Confidence Interval Estimation
Hypothesis Testing
Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests
An Introduction to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Association of Categorical Variables
Correlation of Quantitative Variables
Regression Analysis, an Introduction
Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Appendix A Statistical Formulae
Appendix B Solutions to Worksheets
Appendix C Statistical Tables
Appendix D Glossary of Symbols
Appendix E Introduction to Minitab for Windows
Index
What is Statistics?
Some Statistical Notation
Summarizing Data by Tables and by Graphical Methods
Summarizing Data by Numerical Measures
Probability
Discrete Probability Distributions
Continuous Probability Distributions
Samples and Populations
Confidence Interval Estimation
Hypothesis Testing
Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests
An Introduction to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Association of Categorical Variables
Correlation of Quantitative Variables
Regression Analysis, an Introduction
Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Appendix A Statistical Formulae
Appendix B Solutions to Worksheets
Appendix C Statistical Tables
Appendix D Glossary of Symbols
Appendix E Introduction to Minitab for Windows
Index
Biography
D.G. Rees
"This book is a first primer in statistics... for the occasional user or newcomer to the ideas in statistics this book contains everything you will probably ever need to know."
-Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003
"Anyone who wants to begin learning statistics should be delighted with this book."
-Journal of Quality Technology
"…a very interesting introductory book on collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting data."
-Biometrics
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-Hospital Doctor
