Exploring data in engineering, the sciences, and medicine /
Pearson, Ronald K.,1952-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
[2011]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The art of analyzing data -- Data: types, uncertainty and quality -- Characterizing categorical variables -- Uncertainty in real variables -- Fitting straight lines -- A brief introduction to estimation theory -- Outliers: distributional monsters (?) that lurk in data -- Characterizing a dataset -- Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing -- Relations among variables -- Regression model I: real data -- Reexpression: data transformations -- Regression model II: mixed data types -- Characterizing analysis results -- Regression model III: diagnostics and refinements -- Dealing with missing data.
Mathematical statistics