Description
Book SynopsisThis revised and updated volume describes methods fundamental to the theory and explanation of data analysis. This edition includes extensions and devices such as component and component-plus residual plots, cross-verification with a second sample and an index of required x-precision.
Trade Review"...a grand historical document for industrial statistics in its glory days, as its selection for the Classics Library implies." --Technometrics Vol. 42, No. 4 May 2001
This book provides an excellent insight into the minds of two master craftsmen at work. I very much applaud the decision to include this in a "classics library" and would encourage more authors to produce statistics books in the same vein, i.e. focused on the practical application of the subject rather than methodology development. Anyone involved in the analysis of unbalanced multifactor dtaa will find this book an extremely useful source of practical advice. --The Statistician 50 (1) 2001.
Table of ContentsAssumptions and Methods of Fitting Equations.
One Independent Variable.
Two or More Independent Variables.
Fitting an Equation in Three Independent Variables.
Selection of Independent Variables.
Some Consequences of the Disposition of the Data Points.
Selection of Variables in Nested Data.
Nonlinear Least Squares, a Complex Example.
Glossary.
User's Manual.
Bibliography.
Index.
