The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics

by Brian Sidney Everitt

Series:The Cambridge Dictionary

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If you use statistics and need a useful, up-to-date reliable sourcebook that provides simple definitions and explanations of statistical and statistics-related concepts, then look no further than this dictionary. Some 3500 terms are defined, a considerable increase over the first edition. Short biographies of over 100 important statisticians are included.

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Brian S. Everitt is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biostatistics and Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK Torsten Hothorn is Lecturer of Statistics at the Institut fur Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany

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DDC/MDS: 519.503 — Natural sciences & mathematics Mathematics Probabilities and applied mathematics Statistical Mathematics
LCC: QA276.14 .E84 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Probabilities. Mathematical statistics
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