July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 33m
English
Content preview from Statistical Inference: A Short Course
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Contents
Chapter 1: The Nature of Statistics
1.2 The Population and the Sample
1.3 Selecting a Sample from a Population
Chapter 2: Analyzing Quantitative Data
2.2 Tabular and Graphical Techniques: Ungrouped Data
2.3 Tabular and Graphical Techniques: Grouped Data
2.4 Appendix 2.A Histograms with Classes of Different Lengths
Chapter 3: Descriptive Characteristics of Quantitative Data
3.1 The Search for Summary Characteristics
3.12 So What do We do with All this Stuff?
Appendix 3.A Descriptive Characteristics of Grouped Data
Chapter 4: Essentials of Probability
4.2 Events within the Sample Space
4.3 Basic Probability Calculations
4.4 Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Probability
Chapter 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
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