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050 _aQA276.12
100 _aClarke, G M
245 _aA basic course in statistics
_cG M Clarke; D Cooke
250 _a 3rd
260 _aLondon :
_bE. Arnold,
_c1992.
300 _a451 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _a 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.
650 _a Mathematical statistics.
_xStatistical mathematics
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