Essentials of Statistics for Scientists and Technologists

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Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction or ‘What is statistics?’....Pages 1-2 The presentation of data....Pages 3-14 Probability, its meaning, real and theoretical populations....Pages 15-22 Basic properties of the normal distribution....Pages 23-29 Some properties of sampling distributions....Pages 30-37 Applications of normal sampling theory; significance tests....Pages 38-51 Normal sampling theory: test for difference between several sample means, analysis of variance, design of experiments....Pages 52-62 Normal sampling theory: estimation of ‘parameters’ by confidence intervals, by maximum likelihood....Pages 63-71 The binomial distribution: laws of probability, applications of the binomial distribution, the multinomial distribution....Pages 72-88 The Poisson, the negative exponential, and the rectangular distributions....Pages 89-94 The χ 2 -test for ‘goodness of fit’: test for ‘association’....Pages 95-105 Fitting lines and curves to data, least squares method....Pages 106-115 Regression curves and lines, correlation coefficient, normal bivariate distribution....Pages 116-125 Some distribution-independent (or ‘distribution-free’ or ‘non-parametric’) tests....Pages 126-131 Note on sampling techniques and quality control....Pages 132-134 Some problems of practical origin....Pages 135-150 Back Matter....Pages 151-174