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Counting for Something

Statistical Principles and Personalities

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. William S. Peters

    1. Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Statistics—The Word

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 1-6

  3. Distributions

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 7-14

  4. Special Averages

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 15-25

  5. Making Comparisons

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 26-38

  6. Probability

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 39-51

  7. Craps and Binomial

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 52-60

  8. Horsekicks, Deadly Quarrels, and Flying Bombs

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 61-67

  9. Normal Distribution

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 68-78

  10. Political Arithmetic

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 79-88

  11. Regression and Correlation

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 89-99

  12. Karl Pearson

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 100-107

  13. Pearson to Gosset to Fisher

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 108-114

  14. More Regression

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 115-126

  15. R. A. Fisher

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 127-136

  16. Sampling: Polls and Surveys

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 137-150

  17. Quality Control

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 151-162

  18. Principal Components and Factor Analysis

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 163-181

  19. Jerzy Neyman

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 182-196

  20. The Bayesian Bandwagon

    • William S. Peters
    Pages 197-215
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    William S. Peters

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Counting for Something

  • Book Subtitle: Statistical Principles and Personalities

  • Authors: William S. Peters

  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Statistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96364-8Published: 16 December 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9094-0Published: 11 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4638-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-875X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-4136

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 275

  • Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Applications of Mathematics

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