Stat Labs Mathematical Statistics Through Applications /

• Main Authors: Nolan, Deborah (Author), Speed, Terry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2000.
• Series: Springer Texts in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

This book uses a model we have developed for teaching mathematical statistics through in depth case studies. Traditional statistics texts have many small numer ical examples in each chapter to illustrate a topic in statistical theory. Here, we instead make a case study the centerpiece of each chapte...

Table of Contents:

• Maternal Smoking and Infant Health
• Who Plays Video Games?
• Minnesota Radon Levels
• Patterns in DNA
• Can She Taste the Difference?
• HIV Infection in Hemophiliacs
• Dungeness Crab Growth
• Calibrating a Snow Gauge
• Voting Behavior
• Maternal Smoking and Infant Health (continued)
• A Mouse Model for Down Syndrome
• Helicopter Design.