
Modern statistics in practice
- Steyn AGW, Smit CF, Du Toit SHC, Strasheim C
- ISBN: 9780627019890
- eISBN: N/A
- ePub ISBN: N/A
- 764 Pages | Published: 1999
Application of statistics in everyday situations are addressed and illustrated by practical examples in this book. Years of experience as consultants in statistics have equipped the authors to produce a book that is academically sound but also practically orientated.
Chapter 1: Statistics: a means to an end
Chapter 2: Sampling
Chapter 3: Tabulation and graphic representation
Chapter 4: Descriptive measures of location or central tendency
Chapter 5: Measures of spread, symmetry and kurtosis
Chapter 6: Fitting curves
Chapter 7: Time series
Chapter 8: Indices
Chapter 9: Introduction to probability theory
Chapter 10: Probability models
Chapter 11: Estimation
Chapter 12: Hypothesis testing
Chapter 13: Linear regression and correlation
Chapter 14: Analysis of variance
Chapter 15: Contingency tables
Chapter 16: Distribution-free methods
Appendices
Appendix A: Data Set
Appendix B: Statistical tables
Appendix C: Weights of consumer goods
Appendix D: Time series data
Appendix E: Answers to selected questions
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