Schaum's Easy Outlines Statistics

Spiegel, Murray R.; Lindstrom David P. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0071745815 / ISBN 13: 9780071745819

Published by McGraw Hill, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Schaum's Easy Outlines Statistics

Publisher: McGraw Hill

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Edition: 2nd Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

When you need just the essentials of statistics, this Easy Outlines book is there to help

If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview of statistics, it’s got to be Schaum's Easy Outline. This book is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its Schaum’s Outline cousin, with an emphasis on clarity and conciseness.

Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give you quick pointers to the essentials.

• Perfect if you have missed class or need extra review
• Gives you expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
• So small and light that it fits in your backpack!

Topics include: Variables and Graphs, Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, 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 and Partial Correlation, Analysis of Variation, Nonparametric Tests, Areas under the Standard Normal Curve, Student’s Distribution, Chi-Square Distribution, 99th Percentile Values for the F Distribution

About the Author:

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.