CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae [Hardcover]

Daniel Zwillinger (Author), Stephen Kokoska (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 27, 1999 | ISBN-10: 1584880597 | ISBN-13: 978-1584880592 | Edition: 1

Whether you are a statistician, engineer, or businessperson, you need statistics. You want to be able to easily reference tables, find formulas, and know how to use them so you can extract information from data without getting bogged down by advanced statistical methods. Your goal is to determine the appropriate statistical procedures and interpret the results. Standard Probability and Statistics: Tables and Formulae provides the tools you need to do just that.

Logically organized and reaching far beyond a mere catalog, a textual description accompanies each entry- most include an example. The topics addressed are directly applicable to modern business and engineering as well as to statistics, including regression analysis, ANOVA, decision theory, signal processing, and control theory. The result is an accessible, example-oriented handbook that supplies the basic principles, the most commonly used values, and the information to make them work for you.

It is easy to fill a statistics reference with hundreds of pages of tables - sometimes for just one test. This handbook is much more. With topics ranging from classical statistics to modern applications, Standard Probability and Statistics fills the need for an up-to-date, authoritative statistics reference.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 568 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (December 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584880597
• ISBN-13: 978-1584880592
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,300,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book but ..., October 16, 2005

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This review is from: CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae, Student Edition (Paperback)

This is a great book covering all the details about statistics but you may wish to consider purchasing CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae instead. It covers most of the contents of the stats book for a few dollars more.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Complement to Statistics Texts, January 23, 2004

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This review is from: CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae (Hardcover)

This reference is a good complement to a collection of standard statistics texts. Often, those texts have good explanations of their concepts. But then provide only limited tables of commonly encountered distributions. Part of this may be that to those authors, such tables let them add relatively little value. To an author, her value is in her origina musings, and not necessarily in filling the latter part of her book with reams of tables.

Thus, there is a natural inclination of statistics authors to only provide a modicum of tables. The barest minimum! Well, your answer to this might be to amass several texts, so that hopefully, the tables you need can be found in one of these.

An alternative is to get this book. Not a text, but a reference manual. Though the editors thoughtfully precede the tables with brief explanations of their usage and some cogent examples. You will find here the most commonly needed distributions in an easy to find and use format.