A Topical Dictionary of Statistics

Statistics is the accepted body of methods for summarizing or describing data and drawing conclusions from the summary measures. Everyone who has data to summarize thus needs some knowledge of statistics. The first step in gaining that knowledge is to master the professional jargon. This dictionary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tietjen, Gary L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Summarizing Data
  • 2. Random Variables and Probability Distributions
  • 3. Some Useful Distributions
  • 4. Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
  • 5. Regression
  • 6. The Design of Experiments and the Analysis of Variance
  • 7. Reliability and Survival Analysis
  • 8. Order Statistics
  • 9. Stochastic Processes
  • 10. Time Series
  • 11. Categorical Data
  • 12. Epidemiology
  • 13. Quality Control and Acceptance Sampling
  • 14. Multivariate Analysis
  • 15. Survey Sampling