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"A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics, Second Edition is organized around bodies of mathematical knowledge central to learning and understanding advanced statistics: the basic "language" of linear algebra; differential and integral calculus; probability theory; common probabili...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fox, John, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2021]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-159.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Mathematics.
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Matrices, linear Algebra, and vector Geometry: The basics
  • Matrix decompositions and quadratic forms
  • An introduction to Calculus
  • Elementary Probability Theory
  • Common probability distributions
  • An introduction to Statistical Theory
  • Putting the math to work: Linear Least-squares Regression.