TY - BOOK AU - Mendenhall,William AU - Beaver,Robert J. TI - Introduction to probability and statistics SN - 0534924093 AV - QA276 .M425 1990 U1 - 519.5 22 PY - 1991/// CY - Boston PB - PWS-Kent Pub. Co. KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Probabilities N1 - CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS STATISTICS Illustrative statistical problems The population and the sample E.tc CHAPTER 2: DESCRIBING SETS OF DATA A graphical method for describing a set of data: Relative frequency distributions Stem and leaf displays E.tc CHAPTER 3: PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS The role of probability in statistics Probability and the sample space E.tc CHAPTER 4: SEVERAL USEFUL DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS Introduction The binomial probability distribution The Poisson probability distribution E.tc CHAPTER 5: THE NORMAL AND OTHER CONTINOUS DISTRIBUTIONS Probability distributions for continuous random variables The normal probability distribution E.tc CHAPTER 6: SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS Sampling and statistics Sampling distributions The central limit theorem E.tc CHAPTER 7: LARGE-SAMPLE ESTIMATION A brief summary Inference: The objective of statistics Types of estimators E.tc CHAPTER 8: LARGE-SAMPLE TESTS OF HYPOTHESIS Testing hypotheses about population parameters A statistical test of hypothesis E.tc CHAPTER 9: INFERENCE FROM SMALL SAMPLES Introduction Student's t distribution E.tc CHAPTER 10: LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION Introduction A simple linear probabilistic model The method of least squares E.tc CHAPTER 11: MULTIPLE REGERESSION ANALYSIS The objective of multiple regression analysis The multiple regression model and associated assumptions E.tc CHAPTER 12: ANALYSIS OF ENUMERATIVE DATA A description of the experiment The chi-square test A test of an hypothesis concerning specified cell probabilities E.tc CHAPTER 13: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE The design of an experiment The analysis of variance The completely randomized design E.tc CHAPTER 14: NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS Introduction The sign test for comparing two populations A comparison of statistical tests E.tc; Includes index ER -