If you work with data and need easy access to clear, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts, then look no further than this dictionary. Nearly 4000 terms are defined, covering medical, survey, theoretical, and applied statistics, including computational and graphical aspects. Entries are pred for standard and specialized statistical software. In addition, short biographies of over 100 important statisticians are given.
Theoretical Statistics: Topics for a Core Course (Springer Texts in Statistics)
Comprehensive coverage of estimation and hypothesis testing, frequentist and Bayesian paradigms, large and small sample methods, and the theory underlying numerical algorithms Detailed and rigorous exposition designed to make the material clear and accessibleRich collection of exercises, many with solutions, pushing students to learn the material well enough to use it in their own research and helping them appreciate its relevance to diverse applications
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way.
With more than 1,000,000 copies sold, Practice Makes Perfect has established itself as a reliable practical workbook series in the language-learning category. Now, with Practice Makes Perfect: Statistics, students will enjoy the same clear, concise approach and extensive exercises to key fields they've come to expect from the series--but now within mathematics.
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth CenturyScience is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and biographical sketches that illuminate without alienating the mathematically timid. Salsburg, who has worked in academia and industry and has met many of the major players he writes about, shares his subjects' enthusiasm for problem solving and deep thinking.
