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    <title>Contemporary statistics: a computer approach</title>
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    <namePart>Gordon, Sheldon P.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Gordon, Flroence S.</namePart>
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    <publisher>McGraw - Hill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1994</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xv, 695 p.: ill.; 24cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Introduction to statistics and the computer -- Descriptive statistics -- Numerical description of data -- Probability -- Discrete probability distributions -- The Normal distribution -- Sampling -- Estimation -- Hypothesis testing -- Correlation and regression analysis -- The Chi - square distribution -- Analysis of variance -- Nonparametric statistical tests -- Appendix I: Baseball statistics data set -- Appendix II: Weather data set -- Appendix III: Stock exchange data set -- Table I: Random numbers -- Binomial probabilities -- Areas under the the standard normal curve -- Critical values of the t- distribution -- Critical values of r -- Values of x -- Critical values for the kolmogrow - smirnov test of googness of fit.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Sheldon P Gordon</note>
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