Brook

The Fascination of Statistics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how numbers open up new ways of thinking about problems and addresses current issues for which statistics has practical applications. The articles are classified according to probability, condensing data, testing, estimation, experimental design, prediction, and modelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000146615
• Artikelnr.: 68424102

Autorenporträt

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Inhaltsangabe

I: Probability 1. Probabilities, Meeting, and Mating 2. How Much Does a
Kilogram of Milk Powder Weigh? 3. Writing the Book of Life: Medical Record
Linkage II: Condensing Complex Data 4. Numerical Approaches to
Classification 5. Pattern Recognition, or How to Tell It's One of Those 6.
Finders Keepers 7. How to Assess Management Training 8. Multidimensional
Scaling in Product Development 9. The Positioning of Zap: An Application of
Discriminant Analysis 10. Understanding Patient-Physician Communication 11.
The Why and Wherefore of Factor Analysis III: Hypothesis Testing 12.
Testing for Trends in the Weather 13. How the Theory of Evolution Could Be
Disproved, but Isn't 14. Unraveling DNA Information 15. Sequential
Experimentation, or Count Your Chickens as They Hatch IV: Estimation 16.
Estimating the Size of Wildlife Populations Using Capture Techniques 17.
Who Still Comes to the Races? V: Experimental 18. Randomization: A Historic
Controversy 19. Some Sidelights on Experimental Design VI: Prediction 20.
You Can't Catch Me: I'm the Gingerbread Man 21. Ultrasound in Ante-Natal
Diagnosis 22. Predicting Suicide: Statistical and Clinical Strategies 23.
Predicting Earthquakes 24. Genetic Evaluation of Bulls for Milk Production
VII: Modeling 25. The Survival of the Fittest 26. Forecasting Visitor
Arrivals to New Zealand: An Elementary Analysis 27. Spreading Disease by
Statistics and Growing Cities with Computers 28. Time Series and the Stock
Market 29. The 100-Year Hood and All That 30. War and Peace: Why is Power
Unstable?