Probability and statistical inference /
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| Author / Creator: | Hogg, Robert V. |
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| Edition: | 8th ed. |
| Imprint: | Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2010. |
| Description: | xiv, 622 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7936483 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1. Probability
- 1.1. Basic Concepts
- 1.2. Properties of Probability
- 1.3. Methods of Enumeration
- 1.4. Conditional Probability
- 1.5. Independent Events
- 1.6. Bayes's Theorem
- 2. Discrete Distributions
- 2.1. Random Variables of the Discrete Type
- 2.2. Mathematical Expectation
- 2.3. The Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation
- 2.4. Bernoulli Trials and the Binomial Distribution
- 2.5. The Moment-Generating Function
- 2.6. The Poisson Distribution
- 3. Continuous Distributions
- 3.1. Continuous-Type Data
- 3.2. Exploratory Data Analysis
- 3.3. Random Variables of the Continuous Type
- 3.4. The Uniform and Exponential Distributions
- 3.5. The Gamma and Chi-Square Distributions
- 3.6. The Normal Distribution
- 3.7. Additional Models
- 4. Bivariate Distributions
- 4.1. Distributions of Two Random Variables
- 4.2. The Correlation Coefficient
- 4.3. Conditional Distributions
- 4.4. The Bivariate Normal Distribution
- 5. Distributions of Functions of Random Variables
- 5.1. Functions of One Random Variable
- 5.2. Transformations of Two Random Variables
- 5.3. Several Independent Random Variables
- 5.4. The Moment-Generating Function Technique
- 5.5. Random Functions Associated with Normal Distributions
- 5.6. The Central Limit Theorem
- 5.7. Approximations for Discrete Distributions
- 6. Estimation
- 6.1. Point Estimation
- 6.2. Confidence Intervals for Means
- 6.3. Confidence Intervals for Difference of Two Means
- 6.4. Confidence Intervals for Variances
- 6.5. Confidence Intervals for Proportions
- 6.6. Sample Size
- 6.7. A Simple Regression Problem
- 6.8. More Regression
- 7. Tests of Statistical Hypotheses
- 7.1. Tests about Proportions
- 7.2. Tests about One Mean
- 7.3. Tests of the Equality of Two Means
- 7.4. Tests for Variances
- 7.5. One-Factor Analysis of Variance
- 7.6. Two-Factor Analysis of Variance
- 7.7. Tests Concerning Regression and Correlation
- 8. Nonparametric Methods
- 8.1. Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Tests
- 8.2. Contingency Tables
- 8.3. Order Statistics
- 8.4. Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals for Percentiles
- 8.5. The Wilcoxon Tests
- 8.6. Run Test and Test for Randomness
- 8.7. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness of Fit Test
