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Facts from figures / M.J. Moroney.

By: Moroney, M. J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Pelican original.Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1965Edition: [3rd and revised ed.] reprinted with minor revisions.Description: viii, 472 p. : ill ; 18 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140202366.Subject(s): Probabilities | Mathematical statisticsDDC classification: 519
Contents:
Statistics undesireable -- 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 though 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 co variation -- Statistics desireable.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 519 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00108394
Total holds: 0

With answers.

Bibliography: p. 464-467 - Includes index.

Statistics undesireable -- 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 though 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 co variation -- Statistics desireable.