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Probability theory for statistical methods

Title: Probability theory for statistical methods / by F.N. David.
Author: David, F. N. (Florence Nightingale), 1909-1993.
Publication: Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1949.

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Description

ix, 230 pages : diagrams; 23 cm

Subject

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Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Fundamental ideas -- Preliminary definitions and theorems -- The binomial theorem in probability -- Evaluation of binomial probabilities -- Replacement of the binomial series by the normal curve -- Poisson's limit for binomial probabilities. The negative binomial -- Probabilities a posteriori. Confidence limits -- Simple genetical applications -- Multinomial theorem and simple combinatorial analysis -- Random variables. Elementary laws and theorems -- Moments of sampling distributions -- Random variables. Inequalities. Laws of large numbers. Lexis theory -- Simple estimation. Markoff theorem on least squares -- Further applications of the Markoff theorem -- Characteristic functions. Elementary theorems -- Characteristic functions. Moments and cumulants. Liapounoff's theorem -- Characteristic functions. Converse theorems.

LCCN

49005495

OCLC

ocm07138164
7138164
SCSB-399212

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library