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Comprehensive review of the fundamentals of statistics as they pertain to these sciences. The text includes an accompanying disk with compatible MINITAB sample data.
Contents
Statistical Analysis and Inference in Science: The Art of Reaching Conclusions at the Interface of Theory and Observation. Data and Data Management: What We Have to Go On or Accumulated Records of Observations and Their Expeditious Reorganization. Descriptive Statistics: First Impressions or Sketching Features of Observed Systems with Data. The Foundations of Inference: Probability Models as Descriptions of Research Outcomes. Stochastic Variables andthe Identification of Their Distributions: Distilling Uncertainty. The Exponential and Uniform Distributions: Describing Uncertainty in Time and Space. The Normal Distributions: Good Approximations for Many Composite Variables. AnalyzingVariability: Establishing Differences between Means and between Variances. Testing Hypotheses: Dealing with the Generic Critic while Establishing Powerful Support for New Ideas. Linear Regression: Analyzing an Influence Network. Bootstrapping: Scientific Inference when None of the Above Apply. Chapter Exercises. References. Subject Index.
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By: HJ Thiébuax
247 pages
Its innovative style, real-life examples and exercises at the conclusion of chapters, should be found interesting and valuable by readers. --Zbigniew Sorbjan, University of Oklahoma, in PAGEOPH "The text provides a good coverage of the classical distributions of traditional statistics...Overall, the author is to be congratulated for presenting a human oriented, rather than a robot oriented, book about statistics..." --INTERATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
