Schaum's Outline of Statistics - Softcover

Spiegel, Murray; Stephens, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071485848 ISBN 13: 9780071485845

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

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About this title

About the Authors

The Late MURRAY R. SPIEGEl received the M.S degree in Physics and the Ph.D. in Mathematics from Cornell University. He had positions at Harvard University, Columbia University, Oak Ridge and Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute, and served as a mathematical consultant at several large Companies. His last Position was professor and Chairman of mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hartford Graduate Center. He was interested in most branches of mathematics at the Rensselaer polytechnic Institute, Hartford Graduate Center. He was interested in most branches of mathematics, especially those which involve applications to physics and engineering problems. He was the author of numerous journal articles and 14 books on various topics in mathematics.

Larry Stephens, Ph.D., (Omaha, NE) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska and is also the author of several books.

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
  

Edition details

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