Author | Sachs, Lothar. author |
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Title | Applied Statistics [electronic resource] : A Handbook of Techniques / by Lothar Sachs |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer US, 1982 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0123-3 |
Descript | 706 p. online resource |
to Statistics -- 0 Preliminaries -- 0.1 Mathematical Abbreviations -- 0.2 Arithmetical Operations -- 0.3 Computational Aids -- 0.4 Rounding Off -- 0.5 Computations with Inaccurate Numbers -- 1 Statistical Decision Techniques -- 1.1 What Is Statistics? Statistics and the Scientific Method -- 1.2 Elements of Computational Probability -- 1.3 The Path to the Normal Distribution -- 1.4 The Road to the Statistical Test -- 1.5 Three Important Families of Test Distributions -- 1.6 Discrete Distributions -- 2 Statistical Methods in Medicine and Technology -- 2.1 Medical Statistics -- 2.2 Sequential Test Plans -- 2.3 Evaluation of Biologically Active Substances Based on Dosage-Dichotomous Effect Curves -- 2.4 Statistics in Engineering -- 2.5 Operations Research -- 3 The Comparison of Independent Data Samples -- 3.1 The Confidence Interval of the Mean and of the Median -- ? 3.2 Comparison of an Empirical Mean with the Mean of a Normally Distributed Population -- ? 3.3 Comparison of an Empirical Variance with Its Parameter -- 3.4 Confidence Interval for the Variance and for the Coefficient of Variation -- 3.5 Comparison of Two Empirically Determined Variances of Normally Distributed Populations -- ? 3.6 Comparison of Two Empirical Means of Normally Distributed Populations -- 3.7 Quick Tests Which Assume Nearly Normally Distributed Data -- 3.8 The Problem of Outliers and Some Tables Useful in Setting Tolerance Limits -- 3.9 Distribution-Free Procedures for the Comparison of Independent Samples -- 4 Further Test Procedures -- 4.1 Reduction of Sampling Errors by Pairing Observations: Paired Samples -- 4.2 Observations Arranged in Pairs -- 4.3 The ?2 Goodness of Fit Test -- 4.4 The Kolmogoroff-Smirnoff Goodness of Fit Test -- 4.5 The Frequency of Events -- 4.6 The Evaluation of Fourfold Tables -- 4.7 Testing the Randomness of a Sequence of Dichotomous Data or of Measured Data -- 4.8 The S3 Sign Test of Cox and Stuart for Detection of a Monotone Trend -- 5 Measures of Association: Correlation and Regression -- 5.1 Preliminary Remarks and Survey -- 5.2 Hypotheses on Causation Must Come from Outside, Not Necessarily from Statistics -- 5.3 Distribution-Free Measures of Association -- 5.4 Estimation Procedures -- 5.5 Test Procedures -- 5.6 Nonlinear Regression -- 5.7 Some Linearizing Transformations -- ? 5.8 Partial and Multiple Correlations and Regressions -- 6 The Analysis of k ร 2 and Other Two Way Tables -- 6.1 Comparison of Several Samples of Dichotomous Data and the Analysis of a k ร 2 Two Way Table -- 6.2 The Analysis of r ร c Contingency and Homogeneity Tables -- 7 Analysis of Variance Techniques -- ? 7.1 Preliminary Discussion and Survey -- 7.2 Testing the Equality of Several Variances -- 7.3 One Way Analysis of Variance -- 7.4 Two Way and Three Way Analysis of Variance -- 7.5 Rapid Tests of Analysis of Variance -- 7.6 Rank Analysis of Variance for Several Correlated Samples -- ? 7.7 Principles of Experimental Design -- Bibliography and General References -- Exercises -- Solutions to the Exercises -- Author Index