scientific article; zbMATH DE number 192837

Publication date 5 June 1993

analysis of variance Bayesian inference categorical data analysis decision theory Descriptive statistics estimation experimental design exploratory data analysis goodness of fit graphical methods hypothesis testing linear least squares survey sampling two- sample problems

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Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01)

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The book consists of fifteen chapters which cover most of the material normally to be found in courses in probability and statistical inference for specialists in statistics or mathematics. The way in which it differs from a number of texts in this area is that it emphasizes application of the techniques through the analysis of real data and that it recognizes the existence of the computer, the data sets used are available on a disk. Graphical presentation is also emphasized, many of the tools of exploratory data analysis are presented. This approach to mathematical statistics may well appeal to other readers, outside the specialists, who have some background in calculus and linear algebra. The first six chapters give an introduction to probability and random variables, including jointly distributed random variables, up to the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. At this point a chapter on survey sampling is introduced which leads naturally to a discussion of point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing and goodness of fit. Descriptive statistics including graphical methods are considered. Finally, in this section of the book, which could be loosely labelled inference, parametric and non-parametric approaches to two-sample problems are given. This last chapter also includes a brief discussion on experimental design where several real experiments are described. The remaining topics depend on the previous work but not on each other. They are one-way and two-way analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, linear least squares (including the matrix approach) and decision theory and Bayesian inference.

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