The Architecture of Chance

An Introduction to the Logic and Arithmetic of Probability
Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-0-19-505608-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

Undergraduate textbooks for statistics courses in the behavioural, biological, and social sciences must devote so much space to the nuts-and-bolts details of statistical methods that they have little left over for the larger conceptual framework of probability theory. This brief, lucid book fills the gap with its intelligible and in-depth explanation of probability, laid out step-by-step in a clear and congenial fashion. Even the student with little background in mathematics will find it readable and accessible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowry, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Soziophysik, Wirtschaftsphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; "Common sense reduced to calculation"; The logic and arithmetic of compound probabilities; Probability pathways and a first glance at the logic of probability assessment; Binomial probabilities and the concept of sampling distributions; The normal distribution--remarkable crossroad of fact and theory; Some complex probability assessments based on the normal distribution; A brief climb to one of the next higher levels: Student's t-distributions and the logic of estimation; Appendix A: Table of the unit normal distribution; Appendix B: Table of critical values of student's t-distributions.