Counting for Something Statistical Principles and Personalities
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
| Series: | Springer Texts in Statistics
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 8 Normal Distribution
- The Standard Normal Distribution
- Probability Distribution of the Sample Mean
- Process Control Chart
- The Central Limit Theorem
- References
- 9 Political Arithmetic
- Beginnings in England
- America to 1790
- The United States, 1790–1900
- Statistics and Social Issues
- 1900–1950
- Since 1950
- References
- 10 Regression and Correlation
- The Regression Line
- Variation from Regression
- Correlation and Gallon
- References
- 11 Karl Pearson
- Karl Pearson—to 1901
- Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
- Karl Pearson—from 1901
- References
- 12 Pearson to Cosset to Fisher
- William S. Gosset (Student)
- Ronald A. Fisher
- Using the t-Distribution
- References
- 13 More Regression
- Standard Error of the Regression Coefficient
- Transformations
- Multiple Regression and Correlation
- History and Applications.-References
- 14 R. A. Fisher
- The Analysis of Variance
- R. A. Fisher—from 1925
- Experimental Design
- Bayesian Estimation—The Newsboy Problem
- Subjective Probability
- Assessing Subjective Probabilities
- Bayesian Statistics
- References
- 20 Observational Studies and Program Evaluation
- The Language of Cause
- Rival Explanations
- Analytical Control
- Auto Death Rates and Safety Inspections
- Systems of Relationships
- Discriminant Analysis
- A Discriminant Analysis of Selection Factors
- Evaluation and Controlled Experimentation
- References
- 21 Nonparametrics and Robust Methods
- The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
- Robustness and Student’s t
- Robust Estimation
- The Jacknife
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- References
- 22 Statistics—A Summing Up
- References
- List of Names
- 1 Statistics—The Word
- Descriptive Statistics
- Inferential Statistics
- References
- 2 Distributions
- The Frequency Distribution
- Summary Measures
- Graphs
- References
- 3 Special Averages
- Index Numbers
- Some History
- The Harmonic Mean
- Averaging Time Rates
- Simpson’s Paradox
- References
- 4 Making Comparisons
- Comparing Observations
- Standard Scores
- Comparing Variables
- Median and Quartiles
- Boxplots
- Ordinal Data
- The Dollar Scale
- References
- 5 Probability
- Laplaoe’s Principles of Probability
- Counting the Ways
- Poker Hands
- The Birthday Problem
- Probability in Court
- Which Question Was That?
- References
- 6 Craps and Binomial
- Probabilities for Craps
- The Binomial Distribution
- Inference from the Binomial
- Interval Estimates
- References
- 7 Horsekicks, Deadly Quarrels, and Flying Bombs
- The Poisson Distribution
- The Exponential Distribution
- A Problem of Authorship
- References
- Postscript
- References
- 15 Sampling: Polls and Surveys
- Proportions
- Coefficient of Variation
- Random Numbers
- Sampling Methods
- Election Polls
- Estimating Sample Size
- A National Sample
- References
- 16 Quality Control
- Quality Control to 1930
- Sampling Inspection
- The 1930s
- QC Goes to War
- Sequential Sampling
- Post-World War and Today
- References
- 17 Principal Components and Factor Analysis
- The Principal Component
- General Intelligence
- Criticism
- Ways of Life—An Example
- Factor Rotation
- Semantic Analysis of the Ways
- A Three-Dimensional Map
- References
- 18 Jerzy Neyman
- E. S. Pearson to Gosset to Neyman
- Neyman-Pearson Tests
- The Power of a Test
- Confidence Intervals
- Statistical Issues and Personalities of the 1930s
- Neyman in America
- References
- 19 The Bayesian Bandwagon
- Utility
- Utility After Bernoulli
- Bayes’ Theorem
- The Value of Information
- Break-Even Problems