Schaum's Outline of Statistics (Schaum's Outlines) - Softcover

Spiegel, Murray; Stephens, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071485848 ISBN 13: 9780071485845

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Synopsis

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This Schaum's Outline gives you:

• A concise guide to the standard college course in statistics
• 486 fully worked problems of varying difficulty
• 660 additional practice problems

About this title

Book Description:

The book presents the material in first- through advanced-level statistics courses geared to students who are not mathematics majors. It offers an introduction to general statistical principles and follows by reinforcing understanding with examples and applications appropriate to students who must use statistics in a variety of fields from business to the social sciences. The only mathematical background needed is arithmetic and the elements of algebra. Includes 975 solved problems.

From the Back Cover:

Chapters include:

• Variables and Graphs
  
• Frequency Distributions
  
• The Mean, Median, Mode, and Other Measures of Central Tendency
  
• The Standard Deviation and Other Measures of Dispersion
  
• Moments, Skewness, and Kurtosis
  
• Elementary Probability Theory
  
• The Binomial, Normal, and Poisson Distributions
  
• Elementary Sampling Theory
  
• Statistical Estimation Theory
  
• Statistical Decision Theory
  
• Small Sampling Theory
  
• The Chi-Square Test
  
• Curve Fitting and the Method of Least Squares
  
• Correlation Theory
  
• Multiple Regression
  
• Analysis of Variance
  
• Nonparametric Tests
  
• Analysis of Time Series
  
• Statistical Process Control and Process Capability
  

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071485848
• ISBN 13: 9780071485845
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 600