Essentials of Statistics for Scientists and Technologists

✍ Scribed by C. Mack M.A.(CANTAB), F.INST.P., F.S.S., F.I.M.A. (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1966
Tongue: English
Leaves: 179
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction or ‘What is statistics?’....Pages 1-2
The presentation of data....Pages 3-14
Probability, its meaning, real and theoretical populations....Pages 15-22
Basic properties of the normal distribution....Pages 23-29
Some properties of sampling distributions....Pages 30-37
Applications of normal sampling theory; significance tests....Pages 38-51
Normal sampling theory: test for difference between several sample means, analysis of variance, design of experiments....Pages 52-62
Normal sampling theory: estimation of ‘parameters’ by confidence intervals, by maximum likelihood....Pages 63-71
The binomial distribution: laws of probability, applications of the binomial distribution, the multinomial distribution....Pages 72-88
The Poisson, the negative exponential, and the rectangular distributions....Pages 89-94
The χ 2 -test for ‘goodness of fit’: test for ‘association’....Pages 95-105
Fitting lines and curves to data, least squares method....Pages 106-115
Regression curves and lines, correlation coefficient, normal bivariate distribution....Pages 116-125
Some distribution-independent (or ‘distribution-free’ or ‘non-parametric’) tests....Pages 126-131
Note on sampling techniques and quality control....Pages 132-134
Some problems of practical origin....Pages 135-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-174

✦ Subjects

Statistics, general

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