The fifth edition of this text offers a careful presentation of the probability needed for mathematical statistics and the mathematics of statistical inference.
The Selected Papers of E. S. Pearson
This classic text retains its outstanding features and continues to provide students with excellent background in the mathematics of statistics. Extensively revised with three new chapters.
Statistics
Techniques are introduced through examples, showing how statistics has helped to solve major problems in political science, psychology, genetics, medicine, and other fields.
Noted for its integration of real-world data and case studies, this text offers sound coverage of the theoretical aspects of mathematical statistics.
"A high school book written to help students make sense of the world with statistics."--
This Pearson Original edition is published for Macquarie University.
... the student should be able to : • draw a scatter diagram and a line of best fit • distinguish between positive and negative correlation • calculate covariance • calculate Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient calculate ...
The revision of this well-respected text presents a balanced approach of the classical and Bayesian methods and now includes a chapter on simulation (including Markov chain Monte Carlo and the Bootstrap), coverage of residual analysis in ...