Statistics / James T. McClave, Frank H. Dietrich II, Terry Sincich

An introduction to statistics which features explanations, reinforced with examples and applications. Among the applications are case studies using actual research data to demonstrate important concepts and techniques. Examples incorporate more computer techniques and draw on a wide range of materia...

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Main Author: McClave, James T.
Other Authors: Dietrich, Frank H., Sincich, Terry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall 1997
Edition:7th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Statistics, data, and statistical thinking
  • Methods for describing sets of data
  • Probability
  • Discrete random variables
  • Continuous random variables
  • Sampling distributions
  • Inferences based on a single sample: estimation with confidence intervals
  • Inference based on a single sample: tests of hypotheses
  • Inference ased on two samples: confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses
  • Analysis of variance: comparing more than two means
  • Simple linear regression
  • Multiple regression
  • Model building
  • The chi-square test and the analysis of contingency tables
  • Nonparametric statistics.