Modern statistics in practice
Title:
Modern statistics in practice
Author:
Steyn, A. G. W.
ISBN:
9780627019890
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Pretoria : Van Schaik, 1994.
Physical Description:
739 pages : illustrations
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
1. Statistics: a means to an end -- 2. Sampling -- 3. Tabulation and graphic representation -- 4. Descriptive measures of location or central tendency -- 5. Measures of spread, symmetry and kurtosis -- 6. Fitting curves -- 7. Time series -- 8. Indices -- 9. Introduction to probability theory -- 10. Probability models -- 11. Estimation -- 12. Hypothesis testing -- 13. Linear regression and correlation -- 14. Analysis of variance -- 15. Contingency tables -- 16. Distribution-free methods.