Counting for Something: Statistical Principles and Personalities
Counting for Something: Statistical Principles and Personalities (Springer Texts in Statistics)
by William S. Peters
English | 1987 | ISBN: 1461290945 | 275 pages | PDF | 8.34 MB
by William S. Peters
English | 1987 | ISBN: 1461290945 | 275 pages | PDF | 8.34 MB
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xviii
Statistics—The Word….Pages 1-6
Distributions….Pages 7-14
Special Averages….Pages 15-25
Making Comparisons….Pages 26-38
Probability….Pages 39-51
Craps and Binomial….Pages 52-60
Horsekicks, Deadly Quarrels, and Flying Bombs….Pages 61-67
Normal Distribution….Pages 68-78
Political Arithmetic….Pages 79-88
Regression and Correlation….Pages 89-99
Karl Pearson….Pages 100-107
Pearson to Gosset to Fisher….Pages 108-114
More Regression….Pages 115-126
R. A. Fisher….Pages 127-136
Sampling: Polls and Surveys….Pages 137-150
Quality Control….Pages 151-162
Principal Components and Factor Analysis….Pages 163-181
Jerzy Neyman….Pages 182-196
The Bayesian Bandwagon….Pages 197-215
Observational Studies and Program Evaluation….Pages 216-235
Nonparametrics and Robust Methods….Pages 236-252
Statistics—A Summing Up….Pages 253-260
Back Matter….Pages 261-275