Introduction to Applied Statistics
A Modelling Approach
Price: 995.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198863236
Publication date:
16/12/2019
Paperback
336 pages
234.0x156.0mm
Price: 995.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198863236
Publication date:
16/12/2019
Paperback
336 pages
234.0x156.0mm
J K Lindsey
- Interdisciplinary across medicine, the biological sciences, and the social sciences
- Web-based data sets and R codes available
- Web-based instructor's manual with teaching hints and solutions
- Many examples and exercises relating statistical principles to research
- More than 70 illustrations
New to this Edition:
- Expanded information and illustrative examples
- New sections on the Student t distribution and matched pairs designs
- More than 50% of material updated
- Over 70 all new illustrations
Rights: OUP UK (Indian Territory)
J K Lindsey
Description
This text is aimed at students in medicine, biology, and the social sciences, as well as those planning to specialise in applied statistics. It covers the basics of the design and analysis of surveys and experiments and provides an understanding of the basic principles of modelling and inference. Practical advice is provided on how to design a study, collect data, record observations accurately, detect errors, construct appropriate models, and interpret the results. The text contains many illustrative examples and exercises relating statistical principles to research.
A companion website is available with links to data sets, R codes, and to an instructor's manual with teaching hints and solutions.
About the Author
J K Lindsey, Professor, University of Liege and Limburgs University
J K Lindsey
Table of contents
1: Basic concepts
2: Categorical data
3: Inference
4: Probability distributions
5: Normal regression and ANOVA
6: Dependent responses
7: Where to now?
A: Tables
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index
J K Lindsey
J K Lindsey
Review
"I recommend it as a text for a basic course in applied statistics, either as a first statistics course to mathematics students, or as a more advanced course to students in other disciplines." - Short Book Reviews (Publication of the International Statistical Institute)
Description
This text is aimed at students in medicine, biology, and the social sciences, as well as those planning to specialise in applied statistics. It covers the basics of the design and analysis of surveys and experiments and provides an understanding of the basic principles of modelling and inference. Practical advice is provided on how to design a study, collect data, record observations accurately, detect errors, construct appropriate models, and interpret the results. The text contains many illustrative examples and exercises relating statistical principles to research.
A companion website is available with links to data sets, R codes, and to an instructor's manual with teaching hints and solutions.
About the Author
J K Lindsey, Professor, University of Liege and Limburgs University
Read MoreReviews
"I recommend it as a text for a basic course in applied statistics, either as a first statistics course to mathematics students, or as a more advanced course to students in other disciplines." - Short Book Reviews (Publication of the International Statistical Institute)
Read MoreTable of contents
1: Basic concepts
2: Categorical data
3: Inference
4: Probability distributions
5: Normal regression and ANOVA
6: Dependent responses
7: Where to now?
A: Tables
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index