Ebook: Counting for Something: Statistical Principles and Personalities

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Statistics—The Word....Pages 1-6
Distributions....Pages 7-14
Special Averages....Pages 15-25
Making Comparisons....Pages 26-38
Probability....Pages 39-51
Craps and Binomial....Pages 52-60
Horsekicks, Deadly Quarrels, and Flying Bombs....Pages 61-67
Normal Distribution....Pages 68-78
Political Arithmetic....Pages 79-88
Regression and Correlation....Pages 89-99
Karl Pearson....Pages 100-107
Pearson to Gosset to Fisher....Pages 108-114
More Regression....Pages 115-126
R. A. Fisher....Pages 127-136
Sampling: Polls and Surveys....Pages 137-150
Quality Control....Pages 151-162
Principal Components and Factor Analysis....Pages 163-181
Jerzy Neyman....Pages 182-196
The Bayesian Bandwagon....Pages 197-215
Observational Studies and Program Evaluation....Pages 216-235
Nonparametrics and Robust Methods....Pages 236-252
Statistics—A Summing Up....Pages 253-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-275

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Statistics—The Word....Pages 1-6
Distributions....Pages 7-14
Special Averages....Pages 15-25
Making Comparisons....Pages 26-38
Probability....Pages 39-51
Craps and Binomial....Pages 52-60
Horsekicks, Deadly Quarrels, and Flying Bombs....Pages 61-67
Normal Distribution....Pages 68-78
Political Arithmetic....Pages 79-88
Regression and Correlation....Pages 89-99
Karl Pearson....Pages 100-107
Pearson to Gosset to Fisher....Pages 108-114
More Regression....Pages 115-126
R. A. Fisher....Pages 127-136
Sampling: Polls and Surveys....Pages 137-150
Quality Control....Pages 151-162
Principal Components and Factor Analysis....Pages 163-181
Jerzy Neyman....Pages 182-196
The Bayesian Bandwagon....Pages 197-215
Observational Studies and Program Evaluation....Pages 216-235
Nonparametrics and Robust Methods....Pages 236-252
Statistics—A Summing Up....Pages 253-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-275
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