Author | Mack, C. author |
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Title | Essentials of Statistics for Scientists and Technologists [electronic resource] / by C. Mack |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1966 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8615-9 |
Descript | 182 p. online resource |
1 Introduction or โWhat is statistics?โ -- 2 The presentation of data -- 3 Probability, its meaning, real and theoretical populations -- 4 Basic properties of the normal distribution -- 5 Some properties of sampling distributions -- 6 Applications of normal sampling theory; significance tests -- 7 Normal sampling theory: test for difference between several sample means, analysis of variance, design of experiments -- 8 Normal sampling theory: estimation of โparametersโ by confidence intervals, by maximum likelihood -- 9 The binomial distribution: laws of probability, applications of the binomial distribution, the multi nomial distribution -- 10 The Poisson, negative exponential, and rectangular distributions -- 11 The ?2test for โgoodness of fitโ: test for โassociationโ -- 12 Fitting lines and curves to data, least squares method -- 13 Regression curves and lines, correlation coefficient, normal bivariate distribution -- 14 Some distribution-independent (or โdistribution-freeโ or โnon-parametricโ) tests -- 15 Note on sampling techniques and quality control -- 16 Some problems of practical origin -- Answers