Fundamentals of Statistics
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Fundamentals of Statistics

  1. 301 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Fundamentals of Statistics

About this book

Fundamentals of Statistics covers topics on the introduction, fundamentals, and science of statistics. The book discusses the collection, organization and representation of numerical data; elementary probability; the binomial Poisson distributions; and the measures of central tendency. The text describes measures of dispersion for measuring the spread of a distribution; continuous distributions for measuring on a continuous scale; the properties and use of normal distribution; and tests involving the normal or student's 't' distributions. The use of control charts for sample means; the ranges and fraction defective; the chi-squared distribution; the F distribution; and the bivariate distributions are also considered. The book deals with the idea of mathematical expectation and its relationship with mean, variance, and covariance, as well as weighted averages, death rates, and time series. Students studying for advanced level education or higher national certificates in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, or Pharmacy, as well as university students taking such courses will find the book invaluable.

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780408706766
eBook ISBN
9781483106045
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Applied Mathematics
Index
Mathematics
2 
INTRODUCTION 
done 
earlier 
by 
a 
number 
of 
eminent 
mathematicians 
such 
as 
Pascal 
(1623-1662), 
James 
Bernouilli 
(1654-1705), 
and 
probably 
the 
greatest 
of
all
the 
earlier 
writers 
on 
statistical 
subjects 
Gauss 
(1777-1855). 
Since 
the 
beginning 
of 
this 
century 
the 
subject 
has 
received 
much 
wider 
attention 
as 
its 
usefulness, 
first 
to 
agriculture 
and 
then 
to 
industry, 
has 
been 
realized. 
Nowadays, 
most 
large 
industrial 
and 
commercial 
firms 
use 
some 
statistical 
techniques 
and 
in 
the 
training 
of 
scientists, 
engineers, 
economists 
and 
accountants 
a 
course 
in 
statistics 
is 
generally 
included. 
It 
has 
already 
been 
emphasized 
that 
the 
collection 
of 
data 
to 
which 
the 
statistical 
processes 
are 
applied 
must 
be 
reliable. 
It 
must 
also 
be 
remembered 
that 
the 
use 
of 
statistical 
procedures 
does 
not, 
of
itself, 
guard 
against 
faulty 
reasoning 
or 
incorrect 
interpretation 
of 
results. 
The 
misuse 
of 
statistics 
to 
prove 
that 
a 
desired 
conclusion 
is 
correct 
is 
not 
unknown. 

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Fundamentals of Statistics
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER 2. THE COLLECTION, ORGANIZATION AND REPRESENTATION OF NUMERICAL DATA
  8. CHAPTER 3. ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY
  9. CHAPTER 4. THE BINOMIAL AND POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS
  10. CHAPTER 5. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
  11. CHAPTER 6. MEASURES OF DISPERSION
  12. CHAPTER 7. CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS
  13. CHAPTER 8. THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
  14. CHAPTER 9. SIGNIFICANCE TESTING AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS
  15. CHAPTER 10. QUALITY CONTROL
  16. CHAPTER 11. CHI-SQUARED DISTRIBUTION
  17. CHAPTER 12. THE F DISTRIBUTION (VARIANCE RATIO)
  18. CHAPTER 13. BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS
  19. CHAPTER 14. MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION, VARIANCE AND COVARIANCE
  20. CHAPTER 15. WEIGHTED AVERAGES, DEATH RATES AND TIME SERIES
  21. APPENDIX
  22. SOLUTIONS
  23. INDEX