The Fascination of Statistics

by Brook

• ISBN13: 9780824773298
• ISBN10: 0824773292
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-02-24
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Written by experts in a broad range of fields, this outstanding book shows how statistical thinking and methods help answer questions in a wide variety of subjects -- including law, medicine, psychology, geography, and more. The Fascination of Statistics permits readers with little formal statistical training to understand and enjoy demonstrations of how numbers open up new ways of thinking about problems ... addresses current issues for which statistics has practical applications ... classifies articles according to methodology, including probability, condensing data, testing, estimation, experimental design, prediction, and modelling ... begins each subject with a real problem and its statistical solution ... and includes numerous tables, equations, and delightful line drawings that add further dimensions to the contents. The Fascination of Statistics is essential reading for students and teachers of statistics; professionals in mathematics, biometry, economics, psychology, law, geography, agriculture, city planning, biology, computer science, and other fields to which statistics can be applied; and general readers interested in statistics. It is also excellent supplementary reading in applied statistics courses. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Contributors	p. ix
Probability	p. 1
Probabilities, Meeting, and Mating	p. 3
How Much Does a Kilogram of Milk Powder Weigh?	p. 13
Writing the Book of Life: Medical Record Linkage	p. 25
Condensing Complex Data	p. 47
Numerical Approaches to Classification	p. 51
Pattern Recognition, or How to Tell It's One of Those	p. 65
Finders Keepers	p. 73
How to Assess Management Training	p. 89
Multidimensional Scaling in Product Development	p. 103
The Positioning of Zap: An Application of Discriminant Analysis	p. 111
Understanding Patient-Physician Communication	p. 123
The Why and Wherefore of Factor Analysis	p. 139
Hypothesis Testing	p. 159
Testing for Trends in the Weather	p. 161
How the Theory of Evolution Could Be Disproved, But Isn't	p. 173
Unraveling DNA Information	p. 183
Sequential Experimentation, or Count Your Chickens as They Hatch	p. 193
Estimation	p. 203
Estimating the Size of Wildlife Populations Using Capture Techniques	p. 205
Who Still Comes to the Races?	p. 217
Experimental	p. 229
Randomization: A Historic Controversy	p. 231
Some Sidelights on Experimental Design	p. 245
Prediction	p. 267
You Can't Catch Me: I'm the Gingerbread Man	p. 269
Ultrasound in Ante-Natal Diagnosis	p. 277
Predicting Suicide: Statistical and Clinical Strategies	p. 295
Predicting Earthquakes	p. 307
Genetic Evaluation of Bulls for Milk Production	p. 321
Modeling	p. 329
The Survival of the Fittest	p. 331
Forecasting Visitor Arrivals to New Zealand: An Elementary Analysis	p. 351
Spreading Disease by Statistics and Growing Cities with Computers	p. 375
Time Series and the Stock Market	p. 391
The 100-Year Flood and All That	p. 399
War and Peace: Why Is Power Unstable?	p. 415
Index	p. 427
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