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Facts from figures / M.J. Moroney.

By: Moroney, M. J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Penguin, 1953Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 472 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140135405.Subject(s): Probabilities | Mathematical statisticsDDC classification: 519
Contents:
Statistics undesirable -- The laws of chance -- The magic lantern technique -- On the average -- Scatter -- Speeding up calculations -- Fault finding-the binomial distribution -- Goals ,floods and horse-kicks, the poisson distribution -- The normal distribution -- What happens when we take samples -- Control charts -- Safety in sampling -- How to be a good judge-tests of significance -- How to be precise through vague-estimation and confidence limits -- Association contingency and goodness of fit-the x2 distribution -- Correlation cause and effect -- Time series and fortune telling -- Ranking methods -- The analysis of variation and covariation -- Statistics desirable.

Bibliography: (pages 464-467 and index.

Statistics undesirable -- The laws of chance -- The magic lantern technique -- On the average -- Scatter -- Speeding up calculations -- Fault finding-the binomial distribution -- Goals ,floods and horse-kicks, the poisson distribution -- The normal distribution -- What happens when we take samples -- Control charts -- Safety in sampling -- How to be a good judge-tests of significance -- How to be precise through vague-estimation and confidence limits -- Association contingency and goodness of fit-the x2 distribution -- Correlation cause and effect -- Time series and fortune telling -- Ranking methods -- The analysis of variation and covariation -- Statistics desirable.