TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clarke, G M 
TI  - A basic course in statistics
SN  - 0340567724 
AV  - QA276.12 
PY  - 1992///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - E. Arnold, 
KW  -  Mathematical statistics.
KW  - Statistical mathematics
N1  - Includes index; 
Introduction --
List of projects --
Notation --
1. Populations and variates --
2. Measures of the centre of a set of observations --
3. Samples and populations --
4. The measurement of variability --
5. Looking at data --
6. Probability --
7. Probabilities of compound events --
8. Discrete random variables --
9. Expectation of random variables --
10. Joint distributions --
11. Estimation --
12. Collecting data --
13. Significance testing --
14. Continuous random variables --
15. The normal distribution --
16. Sampling distributions of means and related quantities --
17. Significance tests using the normal distribution --
18. Estimation of intervals and parameters --
19. Hypothesis tests using the [chi][superscript 2] distribution --
20. The Poisson distribution --
21. Correlation --
22. The analysis of variance --
23. Simple linear regression --
24. Multiple regression --
App. I. The binomial series expansion --
App. II. The exponential function --
App. III. Derivatives and integrals of the exponential function --
App. IV. Integrals related to the normal distribution --
App. V. The limit of (1 + x/n)[superscript n] as n [actual symbol not reproducible] [infinity] --
App. VI. A derivation of the Poisson distribution --
App. VII. Partial differentiation
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