The statistical exorcist: dispelling statistics anxiety
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New York [u.a.]
Dekker
1984
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| Series: | Popular statistics
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Physical Description: | XI, 247 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0824772253 |
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Contents
Preface v
An Invitation xi
Making Decisions
1. Gambling at Roulette 3
2. The Dowry Problem 13
3. A Tie Is Like Kissing Your Sister 19
4. Monitoring a Nuclear Reactor 27
5. Should You Inspect Each Item Before Accepting the Lot? 32
6. Statistical Control Charts 41
7. If One Is Good, Why Not Have Two? Redundancy 51
8. Predicting the Reliability of a Complex System 60
9. Round Robin Tournaments 68
Sampling
10. Estimating a Population Property from a Sample 77
11. Selecting a Sample from a Population:
The Literary Digest's Fatal Indigestion 83
12. Using a Table of Random Numbers 89
13. The Racing Car Problem 94
14. Capture Recapture 104
15. Negotiating a Contract in the Absence of Competitive Bids 111
ix
x Contents
Learning from Data
16. Was the 1970 Draft Lottery Fair? 121
17. A Case of Bias? 131
18. Do People Agree? 137
19. Do Overweight Men Tend to Have High Blood Pressure? 145
20. Planning Experiments 158
Estimating Probabilities
21. Life Tables 167
22. Estimating Survival Probabilities 176
23. Reliability Growth 181
24. Revising Opinions 189
25. The Birthday Problem 195
26. The Law of Averages 203
Appendix I: Tables 209
A: 10,000 Random Digits 209
B: Binomial Coefficients 214
Appendix II: Solutions to Selected Problems 216
Appendix III: List of Invented Quotations 237
Commemoration 239
Index 241 |
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