附註:Includes index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 DATA COLLECTION AND PRESENTATION; CHAPTER 3 FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND DATA ANALYSES; CHAPTER 4 NUMERICAL SUMMARY MEASURES; CHAPTER 5 PROBABILITY CONCEPTS AND THEIR ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 6 DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CHAPTER 7 THE NORMAL AND LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; CHAPTER 8 SAMPLING AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS; CHAPTER 9 OTHER CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS AND MOMENTS FOR DISTRIBUTIONS; CHAPTER 10 ESTIMATION AND STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL; CHAPTER 11 HYPOTHESIS TESTING.
摘要:The personal computer has made statistical analysis easier and cheaper. Previously, statistical analysis was difficult for many reasons. Two of the reasons were: (1) statistical analysis was slow and tedious because calculations were done by hand; (2) it was costly because it was done on mainframes and mainframe time was expensive.