Schaum's outline of theory and problems of statistical : SI units /
Murray R. Spiegel
- Second Edition
- New York : McGraw Hill Education, c1992
- 504 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Adapted for SI units by R.L. Constable
Includes index.
Chapter1. Variables and graphs -- Chapter2. Frequency distributions -- Chapter3. The mean,median, mode and other measures of central tendency -- Chapter4. The standard deviation and other measures of dispersion -- Chapter5. Moments, skewness and kurtosis -- Chapter6. Elementary probability theory -- Chapter7. The binomial, normal and poisson distributions -- Chapter8. Elementary sampling theory -- Chapter9. Statistical estimation theory -- Chapter10. Statistical decision theory -- Chapter11. Small sampling theory -- Chapter12. The chi-square test -- Chapter13. Curve fitting and the method of least squares -- Chapter14. Correlation theory -- Chapter15. Multiple and partial correlation -- Chapter16. Analysis of variance -- Chapter17. Nonparametric test -- Chapter18. Analysis of time series -- Chapter19. Index numbers .
Statistics, or statistical method as it is sometimes called, is playing an increasingly important role in nearly all phases of human endeavor. Formerly dealing only with affairs of the state, thus accounting for its name, The influence of statistics has now spread to agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, communications, economics, education, electronics, medicine, physics, political science, psychology, sociology and numerous other fields of science and engineering .