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100 1 _aBlais, Brian
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aStatistical Inference For Everyone
_cBrian Blais
264 2 _bOpen Textbook Library
264 1 _bBrian Blais
300 _a1 online resource
490 0 _aOpen textbook library.
505 0 _a1 Introduction to Probability -- 2 Applications of Probability -- 3 Random Sequences and Visualization -- 4 Introduction to Model Comparison -- 5 Applications of Model Comparison -- 6 Introduction to Parameter Estimation -- 7 Priors, Likelihoods, and Posteriors -- 8 Common Statistical Significance Tests -- 9 Applications of Parameter Estimation and Inference -- 10 Multi-parameter Models -- 11 Introduction to MCMC -- 12 Concluding Thoughts -- BibliographyAppendix A: Computational AnalysisAppendix B: Notation and StandardsAppendix C: Common Distributions and Their PropertiesAppendix D: Tables
520 0 _aThis is a new approach to an introductory statistical inference textbook, motivated by probability theory as logic. It is targeted to the typical Statistics 101 college student, and covers the topics typically covered in the first semester of such a course. It is freely available under the Creative Commons License, and includes a software library in Python for making some of the calculations and visualizations easier.
542 1 _fAttribution-ShareAlike
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource
650 0 _aMathematics
_vTextbooks
650 0 _aApplied mathematics
_vTextbooks
710 2 _aOpen Textbook Library
_edistributor
856 4 0 _uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/447
_zAccess online version
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