Statistical Tables, Explained and Applied

The introduction of the book reads as follows: While preparing this book for publication, we had in mind three objectives: (1) to make available, in a handy format, tables of areas, percentiles and critical values for current applications of inferential statistics; (2) to provide, for each table, clear and sufficient guidelines as to their correct use and interpretation; and (3) to present the mathematical basis for the interested reader, together with the recipes and computational algorithms that were used to produce the tables. As for our first objective, the reader will find several ``classical tables of distributions like those of the normal law, Student's \(t\), chi-square and \(F\) of Fisher-Snedecor. All values have been re-computed, occasionally with our own algorithms; if our values should disagree with older ones, ours should prevail! Moreover, many other tables are new and made available for the first time; let us mention those of percentiles for the \(\overline E^2\) statistic concerning nonlinear monotonic variations in analysis of variance (ANOVA), of coefficients for the reconversion of orthogonal polynomials, and extensive sets of critical values for the binomial and the number-of-runs distributions. To meet our second objective, we provide, for each distribution, a section on how to read off and use appropriate values in the tables, and another one with illustrative examples. Supplementary examples are presented in a separate section, thus covering most common situations in the realm of significance testing procedures. Finally, our third objective required us to compile more or less scattered and ill-known published documents on the origins, prosperities and computational algorithms (exact or approximate) for each selected distribution of probability laws. For the most important distributions (normal, \(\chi^2,t,F\), binomial, random numbers), we present computer algorithms that efficiently generate pseudo random values with chosen characteristics. The reader should benefit form our compiled information and results, as we have tried to render them in the simplest and most easy-to-use fashion.

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