Author | McPherson, Glen. author |
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Title | Statistics in Scientific Investigation [electronic resource] : Its Basis, Application, and Interpretation / by Glen McPherson |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4290-9 |
Descript | XXVI, 667 p. online resource |
1 The Role of Statistics in Scientific Investigation -- 2 Data: The Factual Information -- 3 Statistical Models: The Experimenterโs View -- 4 Comparing Model and Data -- 5 Probability: A Fundamental Tool of Statistics -- 6 Some Widely Used Statistical Models -- 7 Some Important Statistics and Their Sampling Distributions -- 8 Statistical Analysis: The Statisticiansโ View -- 9 Examining Proportions and Success Rates -- 10 Model and Data Checking -- 11 Questions About the โAverageโ Value -- 12 Comparing Two Groups, Treatments or Processes -- 13 Observational Studies, Surveys and Designed Experiments -- 14 Comparing More Than Two Treatments or Groups -- 15 Comparing Mean Response When There Are Three or More Treatments -- 16 Comparing Patterns of Response: Frequency Tables -- 17 Studying Association and Correlation -- 18 Prediction and Estimation: The Role of Explanatory Variables -- 19 Questions About Variability -- 20 Cause and Effect: Statistical Perspectives -- 21 Studying Change in Response over Time -- 22 Computers and Statistics -- Appendix A: Tables for Some Common Probability Distributions -- References -- Figure, Table, and Example Index