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Probability and Statistical Inference

ISBN: 9780130272942 | 0130272949
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover w/CD
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL
Pub. Date: 1/1/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
For a one/two-semester, junior/senior-level course in Math Stat and/or calculus based Probability and Statistics. This applied introduction to the mathematics of probability and statistics for students with a background in calculus uses numerous examples, real data based applications, and computer driven exercises to help explain and motivate the concepts.

This user-friendly introduction to the mathematics of probability and statistics (for readers with a background in calculus) uses numerous applications--drawn fr... MORE
Prefacevii
Prologuexi
Empirical and Probability Distributions
1(65)
Basic Concepts
1... MORE(9)
The Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation
10(6)
Continuous-Type Data
16(14)
Exploratory Data Analysis
30(11)
Graphical Comparisons of Data Sets
41(8)
Time Sequences
49(9)
Probability Density and Mass Functions
58(8)
Probability
66(42)
Properties of Probability
66(9)
Methods of Enumeration
75(11)
Conditional Probability
86(10)
Independent Events
96(7)
Bayes' Theorem
103(5)
Discrete Distributions
108(57)
Random Variables of the Discrete Type
108(10)
Mathematical Expectation
118(13)
Bernoulli Trials and the Binomial Distribution
131(11)
The Moment-Generating Function
142(11)
The Poisson Distribution
153(12)
Continuous Distributions
165(57)
Random Variables of the Continuous Type
165(11)
The Uniform and Exponential Distributions
176(10)
The Gamma and Chi-Square Distributions
186(7)
The Normal Distribution
193(12)
Distributions of Functions of a Random Variable
205(11)
Mixed Distributions and Censoring
216(6)
Multivariable Distributions
222(61)
Distributions of Two Random Variables
222(13)
The Correlation Coefficient
235(9)
Conditional Distributions
244(10)
The Bivariate Normal Distribution
254(7)
Transformations of Random Variables
261(12)
Order Statistics
273(10)
Sampling Distribution Theory
283(58)
Independent Random Variables
283(7)
Distributions of Sums of Independent Random Variables
290(9)
Random Functions Associated with Normal Distributions
299(8)
The Central Limit Theorem
307(8)
Approximations for Discrete Distributions
315(5)
The t and F Distributions
320(5)
Limiting Moment-Generating Functions
325(6)
Chebyshev's Inequality and Convergence in Probability
331(10)
Centerpiece: Importance of Understanding Variability
336(5)
Estimation
341(85)
Point Estimation
341(13)
Confidence Intervals for Means
354(10)
Confidence Intervals for Difference of Two Means
364(9)
Confidence Intervals for Variances
373(6)
Confidence Intervals for Proportions
379(7)
Sample Size
386(8)
Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals for Percentiles
394(8)
A Simple Regression Problem
402(14)
More Regression
416(10)
Tests of Statistical Hypotheses
426(130)
Tests About Proportions
426(10)
Tests About One Mean and One Variance
436(17)
Tests of the Equality of Two Normal Distributions
453(14)
Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Tests
467(11)
Contingency Tables
478(13)
Tests of the Equality of Several Means
491(11)
Two-Factor Analysis of Variance
502(13)
Tests Concerning Regression and Correlation
515(7)
The Wilcoxon Tests
522(12)
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness of Fit Test
534(7)
Resampling Methods
541(6)
Run Test and Test for Randomness
547(9)
Theory of Statistical Inference
556(39)
Sufficient Statistics
556(5)
Power of a Statistical Test
561(9)
Best Critical Regions
570(7)
Likelihood Ratio Tests
577(6)
Bayesian Estimation
583(6)
Asymptotic Distributions of Maximum Likelihood Estimators
589(6)
Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods
595(28)
Statistical Quality Control
595(13)
General Factorial and 2k Factorial Designs
608(7)
More on Design of Experiments
615(8)
Epilogue
621(2)
A REVIEW OF SELECTED MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES623(20)
A.1 Algebra of Sets
623(4)
A.2 Mathematical Tools for the Hypergeometric Distribution
627(3)
A.3 Limits
630(2)
A.4 Infinite Series
632(4)
A.5 Integration
636(2)
A.6 Multivariate Calculus
638(5)
B REFERENCES643(2)
C TABLES645(28)
D ANSWERS TO ODD-NUMBERED EXERCISES673(26)
Index699

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