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Statistics.
LIBRA QA276 .F683 2007b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, David, 1938-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematical statistics--Textbooks.
- Mathematical statistics.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (xvi, 576, A-1 -A-119) : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition : Instructor's desk copy / David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2007]
- Contents:
- Design of experiments
- Controlled experiments
- Observational studies
- Descriptive statistics
- The histogram
- The average and the standard deviation
- The normal approximation for data
- Meaurement error
- Plotting points and lines
- Correlation and regression
- Correlation
- More about correlation
- Regression
- The R.M.S. error for regression
- The regression line
- Probability
- Whatare the chances?
- More about chance
- The binomial formula
- Chance variability
- The law of averages
- The expected value and standard error
- The normal approximation for probability histograms
- Sampling
- Sample surveys
- Chance errors in sampling
- The accuracy of percentages
- Measuring employment and unemployment
- The accuracy of averages
- Chance models
- A model for measurement error
- Chance models in genetics
- Tests of significance
- More tests for averages
- The chi-square test
- A closer look at tests of significance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages A-3-A41) and index.
- OCLC:
- 965195336
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