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Statistical methods in practice : for scientists and technologists /

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"This book presents a broad range of methods which form the core of a statistical toolkit required by scientists and technologists, including descriptive statistics (e.g. mean, median, standard deviation), inference (confidence intervals), significance testing for one mean, two means, two stand...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boddy, Richard, 1939-
Other Authors: Smith, Gordon (Gordon Laird)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2009.
Subjects:
Science > Statistical methods.
Technology > Statistical methods.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Samples and populations
  • 2. What is the true mean?
  • 3. Exploratory data analysis
  • 4. Significance testing
  • 5. normal distribution
  • 6. Tolerance intervals
  • 7. Outliers
  • 8. Significance tests for comparing two means
  • 9. Significance tests for comparing paired measurements
  • 10. Regression and correlation
  • 11. binomial distribution
  • 12. Poisson distribution
  • 13. chi-squared test for contingency tables
  • 14. Non-parametric statistics
  • 15. Analysis of variance: Components of variability
  • 16. Cusum analysis for detecting process changes
  • 17. Rounding of results
  • Statistical Tables.