| Descript. |
1 online resource. |
| Notes |
Print version record. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-371) and index. |
| Contents |
1 The Nature of Statistics -- 1.1 Statistics Defined -- 1.2 The Population and the Sample -- 1.3 Selecting a Sample from a Population -- 1.4 Measurement Scales -- 1.5 Let us Add -- Exercises -- 2 Analyzing Quantitative Data -- 2.1 Imposing Order -- 2.2 Tabular and Graphical Techniques: Ungrouped Data -- 2.3 Tabular and Graphical Techniques: Grouped Data -- Exercises -- Appendix 2.A Histograms with Classes of Different Lengths -- 3 Descriptive Characteristics of Quantitative Data -- 3.1 The Search for Summary Characteristics -- 3.2 The Arithmetic Mean -- 3.3 The Median3.4 The Mode -- 3.5 The Range -- 3.6 The Standard Deviation -- 3.7 Relative Variation -- 3.8 Skewness -- 3.9 Quantiles -- 3.10 Kurtosis -- 3.11 Detection of Outliers -- 3.12 So What Do We Do with All This Stuff? -- Exercises -- Appendix 3.A Descriptive Characteristics of Grouped Data -- 3.A.1 The Arithmetic Mean -- 3.A.2 The Median -- 3.A.3 The Mode -- 3.A.4 The Standard Deviation -- 3.A.5 Quantiles (Quartiles, Deciles, and Percentiles) -- 4 Essentials of Probability -- 4.1 Set Notation -- 4.2 Events within the Sample Space -- 4.3 Basic Probability Calculations -- 4.4 Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Probability -- 4.5 Sources of ProbabilitiesExercises -- 5 Discrete Probability Distributions and Their Properties -- 5.1 The Discrete Probability Distribution -- 5.2 The Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random Variable -- 5.3 The Binomial Probability Distribution -- 5.3.1 Counting Issues -- 5.3.2 The Bernoulli Probability Distribution -- 5.3.3 The Binomial Probability Distribution -- Exercises -- 6 The Normal Distribution -- 6.1 The Continuous Probability Distribution -- 6.2 The Normal Distribution -- 6.3 Probability as an Area Under the Normal Curve -- 6.4 Percentiles of the Standard Normal Distribution and Percentiles of the Random Variable XExercises -- Appendix 6.A The Normal Approximation to Binomial Probabilities -- 7 Simple Random Sampling and the Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- 7.1 Simple Random Sampling -- 7.2 The Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- 7.3 Comments on the Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- 7.4 A Central Limit Theorem -- Exercises -- Appendix 7.A Using a Table of Random Numbers -- Appendix 7.B Assessing Normality via the Normal Probability Plot -- Appendix 7.C Randomness, Risk, and Uncertainty -- 7.C.1 Introduction to Randomness. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Sys Details |
Ebook access requires you to log in as a Federation University Australia library user |
| Subject |
Mathematical statistics -- Testbooks.
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| Other Author |
Ebooks Corporation.
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| ISBN |
9781118309780 (electronic bk.) |
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1118309782 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118309773 (electronic bk.) |
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1118309774 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118309803 |
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1118309804 |
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1118309782 |
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9781118229408 |
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1118229401 |
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9781280699337 (MyiLibrary) |
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1280699337 (MyiLibrary) |
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