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Counting for Something: Statistical Principles and Personalities by William S. P
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- ISBN-13
- 9780387963648
- Book Title
- Counting for Something
- ISBN
- 9780387963648
- Subject Area
- Mathematics
- Publication Name
- Counting for Something : Statistical Principles and Personalities
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- History & Philosophy, Probability & Statistics / General, Applied
- Publication Year
- 1986
- Series
- Springer Texts in Statistics Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 22 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- Xviii, 275 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer New York
ISBN-10
0387963642
ISBN-13
9780387963648
eBay Product ID (ePID)
126453
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
Xviii, 275 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Counting for Something : Statistical Principles and Personalities
Publication Year
1986
Subject
History & Philosophy, Probability & Statistics / General, Applied
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics
Series
Springer Texts in Statistics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
86-011866
Dewey Edition
19
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
519.5/09
Table Of Content
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.- 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.- 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.- 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.
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QA273.A1-274.9
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