Statistics in theory and practice / Robert Lupton.

By:

Lupton, Robert

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.Description: x, 188 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0691074291

Subject(s):

Mathematical statistics

DDC classification:

519.5 LUP

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Contents:

Introduction Preliminaries Some common probability distributions Distributions related to the Gaussian Sampling Distributions of sample statistics Bayes' theorem and maximum likelihood Confidence intervals Hypothesis testing The theory of maximum likelihood estimators Least squares fitting for linear models Hypothesis testing in the linear model Rank correlation coefficients Tests of fit Robust tests for means

Summary: Aimed at readers without a specialist scientific background, this monograph describes the theory underlying classical statistical methods. Readers with some familiarity of the standard tests will learn more about their strengths, weaknesses and domains of applicability

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-131) and indexes.

Introduction
Preliminaries
Some common probability distributions
Distributions related to the Gaussian
Sampling
Distributions of sample statistics
Bayes' theorem and maximum likelihood
Confidence intervals
Hypothesis testing
The theory of maximum likelihood estimators
Least squares fitting for linear models
Hypothesis testing in the linear model
Rank correlation coefficients
Tests of fit
Robust tests for means

Aimed at readers without a specialist scientific background, this monograph describes the theory underlying classical statistical methods. Readers with some familiarity of the standard tests will learn more about their strengths, weaknesses and domains of applicability

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