Theory and problems of statistics / Murray R. Spiegel (1961)

Theory and problems of statistics [texte imprimé] / Murray R. Spiegel (1923-1991), Auteur . - New York : McGraw-Hill, 1961 . - 359 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - (Schaum's outline series) .
ISSN : 07-060227-1
La couv. porte en plus : Including 875 solved problems completely solved in detail. -Index
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Mots-clés :	Statistics Statistique mathématique Statistique -- Problèmes et exercices
Index. décimale :	519.2 Probabilités. Statistique mathématique
Résumé :	Statistics, or statistical methods as it is sometimes called, is playing an increasingly important role in nearly all phases of human endeavor. Formerly dealing only with affairs of the state, thus accounting for its name, the influence of statistics has now spread to agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, communications, economics, education, electronics, medicine, physics, political science, psychology, sociology and numerous other fields of science and engineering.
Note de contenu :	Summary : 1. Variables and graphs. 2. Frequency distributions. 3. The mean, median, mode and other measures of central tendency. 4. The standard deviation and other measures of dispersion. 5. Moments, skewness and kurtosis. 6. Elementary probability theory. 7. The binomial, normal and poisson distributions. 8. Elementary sampling theory. 9. Statistical estimation theory. 10. Statistical decision theory, tests of hypotheses and significance. ...