An introduction to statistical inference and its applications with R. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael W. Trosset.
• Other Names: Trosset, Michael W (Michael William)
• Contents: Experiments; Examples; Randomization; The Importance of Probability; Games of Chance; Mathematical Preliminaries ; Sets; Counting; Functions; Limits; Probability; Interpretations of Probability; Axioms of Probability; Finite Sample Spaces; Conditional Probability; Random Variables; Case Study: Padrolling in Milton Murayama’s All I asking for is my body; Discrete Random Variables; Basic Concepts; Examples; Expectation; Binomial Distributions; Continuous Random Variables ; A Motivating Example; Basic Concepts; Elementary Examples; Normal Distributions; Normal Sampling Distributions; Quantifying Population Attributes ; Symmetry; Quantiles; The Method of Least Squares; Data; The Plug-In Principle; Plug-In Estimates of Mean and Variance; Plug-In Estimates of Quantiles; Kernel Density Estimates; Case Study: Are Forearm Lengths Normally Distributed?; Transformations; Lots of Data ; Averaging Decreases Variation; The Weak Law of Large Numbers; The Central Limit Theorem; Inference; A Motivating Example; Point Estimation; Heuristics of Hypothesis Testing; Testing Hypotheses about a Population Mean; Set Estimation; 1-Sample Location Problems ; The Normal 1-Sample Location Problem; The General 1-Sample Location Problem; The Symmetric 1-Sample Location Problem; Case Study: Deficit Unawareness in Alzheimer’s Disease; 2-Sample Location Problems ; The Normal 2-Sample Location Problem; The Case of a General Shift Family; Case Study: Etruscan versus Italian Head Breadth; The Analysis of Variance ; The Fundamental Null Hypothesis; Testing the Fundamental Null Hypothesis; Planned Comparisons; Post Hoc Comparisons; Case Study: Treatments of Anorexia; Goodness-of-Fit ; Partitions; Test Statistics; Testing Independence; Association; Bivariate Distributions; Normal Random Variables; Monotonic Association; Explaining Association; Case Study: Anorexia Treatments Revisited; Simple Linear Regression ; The Regression Line; The Method of Least Squares; Computation; The Simple Linear Regression Model; Assessing Linearity; Case Study: Are Thick Books More Valuable?; Simulation-Based Inference ; Termite Foraging Revisited; The Bootstrap; Case Study: Adventure Racing; R: A Statistical Programming Language ; Introduction; Using R; Functions That Accompany This Book; Index; Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 467 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 519.54; Mathematical statistics; Probabilities; R (Computer program language); Mathematical statistics; Probabilities; R (Computer program language); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781584889489; 1584889489
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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