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The Fascination of statistics by Brook, Richard J is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Series Page......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Contributors......Page 12 I. Probability......Page 18 l. Probabilities, Meeting, and Mating......Page 20 2. How Much Does a Kilogram of Milk Powder Weigh?......Page 30 3. Writing the Book of Life: Medical Record Linkage......Page 42 II. Condensing Complex Data......Page 64 4. Numerical Approaches to Classification......Page 68 5. Pattern Recognition, or How to Tell It's One of Those......Page 82 6. Finders Keepers......Page 90 7. How to Assess Management Training......Page 106 8. Multidimensional Scaling in Product Development......Page 120 9. The Positioning of Zap: An Application of Discriminant Analysis......Page 128 10. Understanding Patient-Physician Communication......Page 140 11. The Why and Wherefore of Factor Analysis......Page 156 III. Hypothesis Testing......Page 176 12. Testing for Trends in the Weather......Page 178 13. How the Theory of Evolution Could Be Disproved, But Isn't......Page 190 14. Unraveling DNA Information......Page 200 15. Sequential Experimentation, or Count Your Chickens as They Hatch......Page 210

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Brook, Richard J
Publisher
Dekker
Published
1986
Language
EN
ISBN
9781003065388
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Stem

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