TY - GEN AU - Clarke, G. M. AU - Cooke, D. TI - A basic course in statistics SN - 0340576979 U1 - 519.2 PY - 1992/// CY - London : PB - E. Arnold, KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Quality control KW - Statistics--Study and teaching KW - Commercial statistics KW - Experimental design KW - Probability measures N1 - Populations and variates -- ; Measures of the centre of a set of observations -- ; Samples and populations -- ; The measurement of variability -- ; Probability -- ; Probabilities of compound events -- ; Discrete random variables -- ; Expectation of random variables -- ; Joint distributions -- ; Estimation -- ; Collecting data -- ; Significance testing -- ; Continuous random variables -- ; The normal distribution -- ; Sampling distributions of means and related quantities -- ; Significance tests using the normal distribution -- ; Hypothesis tests using the [chi][superscript 2] distribution -- ; The Poisson distribution -- ; Correlation -- ; Linear regression -- ; The analysis of variance -- N2 - This new edition includes computing exercises at the end of each chapter to reflect the growing use of computers in teaching statistics. It is designed for students taking introductory courses in statistics in school, technical colleges and universities ER -