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Probability and Statistical Inference
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Updated classic statistics text, with new problems and examples
Probability and Statistical Inference, Third Edition helps students grasp essential concepts of statistics and its probabilistic foundations. This book focuses on the development of intuition and understanding in the subject through a wealth of examples illustrating concepts, theorems, and methods. The reader will recognize and fully understand the why and not just the how behind the introduced material.
In this Third Edition, the reader will find a new chapter on Bayesian statistics, 70 new problems and an appendix with the supporting R code. This book is suitable for upper-level undergraduates or first-year graduate students studying statistics or related disciplines, such as mathematics or engineering. This Third Edition:
- Introduces an all-new chapter on Bayesian statistics and offers thorough explanations of advanced statistics and probability topics
- Includes 650 problems and over 400 examples - an excellent resource for the mathematical statistics class sequence in the increasingly popular "flipped classroom" format
- Offers students in statistics, mathematics, engineering and related fields a user-friendly resource
- Provides practicing professionals valuable insight into statistical tools
Probability and Statistical Inference offers a unique approach to problems that allows the reader to fully integrate the knowledge gained from the text, thus, enhancing a more complete and honest understanding of the topic.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
- Probability and Statistical Inference
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface to Third Edition
- Preface to Second Edition
- About the Companion Website
- Chapter 1: Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Events
- Chapter 2: Probability
- Chapter 3: Counting
- Chapter 4: Conditional Probability, Independence, and Markov Chains
- Chapter 5: Random Variables: Univariate Case
- Chapter 6: Random Variables: Multivariate Case
- Chapter 7: Expectation
- Chapter 8: Selected Families of Distributions
- Chapter 9: Random Samples
- Chapter 10: Introduction to Statistical Inference
- Chapter 11: Estimation
- Chapter 12: Testing Statistical Hypotheses
- Chapter 13: Linear Models
- Chapter 14: Rank Methods
- Chapter 15: Analysis of Categorical Data
- Chapter 16: Basics of Bayesian Statistics
- APPENDIX A: APPENDIX ASupporting R Code
- APPENDIX B: APPENDIX BStatistical Tables
- Bibliography
- Answers to Odd‐Numbered Problems
- Index
- End User License Agreement