AHandbookofStatistics
AnOverviewofStatisticalMethods
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A Handbook of Statistics
An Overview of Statistical Methods
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A Handbook of Statistics: An Overview of Statistical Methods
1st edition
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A Handbook of Statistics
Contents
Contents
Preface
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1
Statistics and Statistical hinking
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1.1
Descriptive Statistics
9
1.2
Inferential Statistics
11
1.3
Types of Data
13
1.4
Chapter 1 Problems
13
2
Collecting Data & Survey Design
14
2.1
Sampling Methods
16
2.2
Chapter 2 Exercises
17
3
Describing Data Sets
18
3.1
Summarizing Qualitative Data
19
3.2
Graphical Techniques for Describing Data
20
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A Handbook of Statistics
Contents
3.3
Measures of Central Tendency
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3.4
Measures of Variability
23
3.5
Combining the Mean and the Standard Deviation
25
3.6
Chapter 3 Exercises
28
4
Probability
30
4.1
Union & Intersection of Events
36
4.2
he Additive Rule of Probability
37
4.3
Conditional Probability
39
4.4
Multiplicative Rule of Probability
40
4.5
Chapter 4 Problems
41
5
Random Variables and Probability Distributions
43
5.1
he Binomial Distribution
46
5.2
he Normal Distribution
49
5.3
Chapter 5 Problems
53
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he Sampling Distribution
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6.1
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