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A First Course in Probability Models and Statistical Inference

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  1. J. H. C. Creighton

    1. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  3. Understanding Observed Data

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    Pages 38-79

  4. Discrete Probability Models

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    Pages 80-127

  5. Continuous Probability Models

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    Pages 128-167

  6. Estimation of Parameters

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    Pages 168-223

  7. Introduction to Tests of Statistical Hypotheses

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    Pages 224-287

  8. Introduction to Simple Linear Regression

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    Pages 288-325

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 326-719
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About this book

Welcome to new territory: A course in probability models and statistical inference. The concept of probability is not new to you of course. You've encountered it since childhood in games of chance-card games, for example, or games with dice or coins. And you know about the "90% chance of rain" from weather reports. But once you get beyond simple expressions of probability into more subtle analysis, it's new territory. And very foreign territory it is. You must have encountered reports of statistical results in voter sur­ veys, opinion polls, and other such studies, but how are conclusions from those studies obtained? How can you interview just a few voters the day before an election and still determine fairly closely how HUN­ DREDS of THOUSANDS of voters will vote? That's statistics. You'll find it very interesting during this first course to see how a properly designed statistical study can achieve so much knowledge from such drastically incomplete information. It really is possible-statistics works! But HOW does it work? By the end of this course you'll have understood that and much more. Welcome to the enchanted forest.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

    J. H. C. Creighton

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A First Course in Probability Models and Statistical Inference

  • Authors: J. H. C. Creighton

  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Statistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8540-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94114-1Published: 18 February 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6431-6Published: 05 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8540-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-875X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-4136

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 719

  • Topics: Applications of Mathematics

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