Schaum's Outline of Statistics (Schaum's Outline Series) - Softcover

Spiegel, Murray; Stephens, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071485848 ISBN 13: 9780071485845

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2007

Synopsis

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This Schaum's Outline gives you:

• A concise guide to the standard college course in statistics
• 486 fully worked problems of varying difficulty
• 660 additional practice problems

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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• Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks

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• 508 solved problems, updated for today's students
• 694 additional practice problems
• Computerized solutions using Minitab software
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Chapters include:

• Variables and Graphs
• Frequency Distributions
• The Mean, Median, Mode, and Other Measures of Central Tendency
• The Standard Deviation and Other Measures of Dispersion
• Moments, Skewness, and Kurtosis
• Elementary Probability Theory
• The Binomial, Normal, and Poisson Distributions
• Elementary Sampling Theory
• Statistical Estimation Theory
• Statistical Decision Theory
• Small Sampling Theory
• The Chi-Square Test
• Curve Fitting and the Method of Least Squares
• Correlation Theory
• Multiple and Partial Correlation
• Analysis of Variance
• Nonparametric Tests
• Analysis of Time Series

Statistical Process Control and Process Capability

About the Author:

Murray J. Spiegel was Chairman of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Larry J. Stephens, Ph.D., is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071485848
• ISBN 13: 9780071485845
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 577