Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners

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eBook Title: Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners
ISBN10: 0471887692
ISBN13: 978-0471887690
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (August 1991)
Category: Science & Math
Subcategory: Mathematics
Size ePub vers.: 1437 kb
Size PDF vers.: 1704 kb
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Rating: 4.7
Votes: 495
Pages: 392 pages

Presents a detailed exposition of statistical intervals and emphasizes applications in industry. The discussion differentiates at an elementary level among different kinds of statistical intervals and gives instruction with numerous examples and simple math on how to construct such intervals from sample data. This includes confidence intervals to contain a population percentile, confidence intervals on probability of meeting specified threshold value, and prediction intervals to include observation in a future sample. Also has an appendix containing computer subroutines for nonparametric statistical intervals.