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The Philosophy of Statistics

D. V. Lindley • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) (2000)

This paper puts forward an overall view of statistics. It is argued that statistics is the study of uncertainty. The many demonstrations that uncertainties can only combine according to the rules of the probability calculus are summarized. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00238

Statistics In Kinesiology

William J. Vincent (1994)

Measurement, statistics and research organizing and displaying data percentiles measures of central tendency measures of variability the normal curve and sampling error correlation, bivariate, and multiple regression the T test - comparing ...

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Statistics – An introduction

Allan W.M. Bonnick • Routledge eBooks (2008)

Statistics is a branch of mathematics that is used to help people to understand the information that is contained in large amounts of data such as numbers. The numbers and other facts that are collected for various purposes are called data....

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780080560892-2

Learning Statistics by Doing Statistics

Gary Smith • Journal of Statistics Education (1998)

To help students develop statistical reasoning, a traditional introductory statistics course was modified to incorporate a semester-long sequence of projects, with written and oral reports of the results. Student test scores improved dramat...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.1998.11910623

Statistics of Extremes

Jan Beirlant, Yuri Goegebeur, Jozef L. Teugels, Johan Segers • Wiley series in probability and statistics (2004)

Research in the statistical analysis of extreme values has flourished over the past decade: new probability models, inference and data analysis techniques have been introduced; and new application areas have been explored. Statistics of Ext...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/0470012382

Principles of Statistics

M. G. Bulmer (1965)

There are many textbooks which describe current methods of statistical analysis, while neglecting related theory. There are equally many advanced textbooks which delve into the far reaches of statistical theory, while bypassing practical ap...

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