Description
Book SynopsisSteve Lakin is an award-winning lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Glamorgan, where he specialises in teaching basic mathematics and statistics to a wide range of students across all courses and subjects.
Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements
How to use this book
A note on mathematics, calculators and computer software
Introductory statistics
1. Introduction to statistics and data
2. Presentation of data
3. Averages
4. Cumulative frequencies and percentiles
5. Measures of dispersion
6. Working with frequency distributions
Essential mathematics
7. Factorials, permutations and combinations
8. Sigma notation
Correlation and regression
9. Correlation
10. Linear regression
Probability
11. An introduction to probability
12. Multiple probabilities
13. Probability trees
14. Expected values and decision criteria
15. Conditional probability
Probability distributions
16. Introduction to probability distributions
17. The Poisson distribution
18. The normal distribution
19. The binormal distribution
Hypothesis testing
20. Introduction to hypothesis testing.
21. z-tests
22. t-tests
23. ÷2-tests
24. F-tests. The use of F-tests for comparison of variances
Statistical Tables
Table A - The normal distribution N(0, 1)
Table B - Confidence limits for the z-test
Table C1 - The one-tailed t-test
Table C2 - The two-tailed t-test
Table D - Critical values for the ÷2 distribution
Table E1 - Critical values for the F-test (5%)
Table E2 - Critical values for the F-test (1%)
Summary, glossary and appendices
Summary and further work
Glossary
Appendix 1 - 'Use of a calculator' test
Appendix 2 - The Greek alphabet
Appendix 3 - Some useful Excel commands
Solutions to exercises
