Many statistics texts lack well-defined connections among materials presented, as if the different topics were disjointed. In this new text, George Woodbury successfully illustrates the natural connections between probability and inferential statistics and between confidence intervals and hypothesis
An Introduction to Statistics
โ Scribed by Arthur H. Hall (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 145
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction โ The How, Why and Wherefore of Statistics....Pages 3-5
Averages....Pages 6-8
The Arithmetic Mean....Pages 9-15
Dispersion....Pages 16-23
Cumulative Frequencies....Pages 24-28
Discrete and Continuous Measurement....Pages 29-36
The Mode and Median....Pages 37-43
Approximation....Pages 44-49
Bivariate Distributions โ Correlation, Regression....Pages 50-58
Rank Correlation....Pages 59-63
Time Series....Pages 64-73
Weighted Averages and Index Numbers....Pages 74-84
Further Graphical Methods of Presenting Data....Pages 85-93
The Normal Distribution....Pages 94-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Sampling....Pages 103-107
Surveys and Polls....Pages 108-112
Tabulation of Data....Pages 113-117
Pictorial Representation of Data....Pages 118-128
Government and Other Statistics....Pages 129-134
Back Matter....Pages 135-143
โฆ Subjects
Applications of Mathematics
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