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Essential Statistics
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An introductory text for students taking a first course in statistics-in fields as diverse as engineering, business, chemistry, and biology-Essential Statistics: Fourth Edition thoroughly updates and enhances the hugely successful third edition. It presents new information on modern statistical techniques such as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and software such as MINITAB™ for WINDOWS.An experienced former lecturer, the author communicates to students in his trademark easy-to-follow style. Keeping complex mathematical theory to a minimum, Rees presents a wealth of fully explained worked examples throughout the text. In addition, the end-of-chapter Worksheets relate to a variety of fields-enabling students to see the relevance of the numerous methods to their study areas. Essential Statistics: Fourth Edition emphasizes the principles and assumptions underlying the statistical methods, thus providing the tools needed for students to use and interpret statistical data effectively.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1: What is Statistics?
- 2: Some Statistical Notation
- 3: Summarizing Data by Tables and by Graphical Methods
- 4: Summarizing Data by Numerical Measures
- 5: Probability
- 6: Discrete Probability Distributions
- 7: Continuous Probability Distributions
- 8: Samples and Populations
- 9: Confidence Interval Estimation
- 10: Hypothesis Testing
- 11: Nonparametric Hypothesis Test
- 12: An Introduction to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA
- 13: Association of Categorical Variables
- 14: Correlation of Quantitative Variables
- 15: Regression Analysis, An Introduction
- 16: Goodness-of-Fit Tests
- Appendix A: Statistical Formulae
- Appendix B: Solutions to Worksheets
- Appendix C: Statistical Tables
- Appendix D: Glossary of Symbols
- Appendix E: Introduction to Minitab for Windows
- Index