A concise introduction to statistical inference

by Thijssen, Jacco J. J.

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Full title :A concise introduction to statistical inference / Jacco Thijssen.

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Publication Date:2016

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Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Boca Raton, Florida
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781498755788, 149875578X, 9781498755801, 1498755801, 9781498755795, 1498755798
oclc:ocn964527642
LC Classification:QA276.12
Dewey Decimal:519.5/4

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Statistical Inference; 1.1 What statistical inference is all about; 1.2 Why statistical inference is difficult; 1.3 What kind of parameters are we interested in? ; 1.3.1 Center of a distribution; 1.3.2 Spread of a distribution; 1.3.3 Association between variables; 1.4 Statistics and probability; 1.5 Chapter summary; 2: Theory and Calculus of Probability; 2.1 Probability models; 2.2 Random variables and their distributions; 2.3 Moments of random variables.

2.3.1 Expectation2.3.2 Higher order moments; 2.3.3 Variance; 2.4 Multivariate distributions; 2.4.1 Association between two random variables; 2.5 Normal distribution; 2.5.1 Bivariate normal distribution; 2.6 Limit theorems for the sample mean; 2.7 Chapter summary; 2.8 Exercises and problems; 3: From Probability to Statistics; 3.1 A first stab at statistical inference; 3.2 Sampling distributions; 3.3 Chapter summary; 3.4 Exercises and problems; 4: Statistical Inference for the Mean based on a Large Sample; 4.1 Simple statistical model for the mean; 4.2 Confidence intervals; 4.3 Hypothesis tests.

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Bayes-Regel Maschinelles Lernen Mathematical statistics Mathematical statistics -- Textbooks MATHEMATICS -- Applied MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics Probabilities Probabilities -- Textbooks Statistik Textbooks Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie