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A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Why probability and statistics?
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    Chapter 2 Outcomes, events, and probability
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    Chapter 3 Conditional probability and independence
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    Chapter 4 Discrete random variables
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    Chapter 5 Continuous random variables
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    Chapter 6 Simulation
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    Chapter 7 Expectation and variance
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    Chapter 8 Computations with random variables
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    Chapter 9 Joint distributions and independence
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    Chapter 10 Covariance and correlation
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    Chapter 11 More computations with more random variables
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    Chapter 12 The Poisson process
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    Chapter 13 The law of large numbers
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    Chapter 14 The central limit theorem
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    Chapter 15 Exploratory data analysis: graphical summaries
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    Chapter 16 Exploratory data analysis: numerical summaries
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    Chapter 17 Basic statistical models
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    Chapter 18 The bootstrap
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    Chapter 19 Unbiased estimators
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    Chapter 20 Efficiency and mean squared error
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    Chapter 21 Maximum likelihood
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    Chapter 22 The method of least squares
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    Chapter 23 Confidence intervals for the mean
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    Chapter 24 More on confidence intervals
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    Chapter 25 Testing hypotheses: essentials
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    Chapter 26 Testing hypotheses: elaboration
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    Chapter 27 The t-test
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    Chapter 28 Comparing two samples
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Title
A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Published by
Springer London, January 2005
DOI 10.1007/1-84628-168-7
ISBNs
978-1-85233-896-1, 978-1-84628-168-6, 978-1-84996-952-9
Authors

Dekking, Frederik Michel, Kraaikamp, Cornelis, Lopuhaä, Hendrik Paul, Meester, Ludolf Erwin, F.M. Dekking, C. Kraaikamp, H.P. Lopuhaä, L.E. Meester, Frederik Michel Dekking, Cornelis Kraaikamp, Hendrik Paul Lopuhaä, Ludolf Erwin Meester

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 3%
United Kingdom 5 2%
Netherlands 4 1%
France 3 1%
Italy 3 1%
Germany 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
China 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Other 12 4%
Unknown 248 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 60 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 59 20%
Researcher 58 20%
Student > Bachelor 23 8%
Professor 17 6%
Other 75 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 49 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 16%
Computer Science 42 14%
Mathematics 27 9%
Physics and Astronomy 23 8%
Other 103 35%