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Handbook of the normal distribution / Jagdish K. Patel, Campbell B. Read.

By: Patel, Jagdish K.
Contributor(s): Read, Campbell B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Statistics, textbooks and monographs ; 40.Publisher: New York : M. Dekker, c1982Description: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0824715411.Subject(s): Gaussian distributionDDC classification: 519.2
Contents:
Genesis: a historical background -- Some basic and miscellaneous results -- The normal distribution: tables, expansions and algorithms -- Characterizations -- Sampling distributions -- Limit theories and expansions -- Normal approximations to distributions -- Order statistics from normal samples -- The Wiener and Gaussian processes -- The bivariate normal distribution.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of results relating to the normal distribution, tracing the historical development of normal law and providing a compendium of properties. The revised edition introduces the most current estimation procedures for normally distributed samples for researchers and students in theoretical and applied statistics, including expanded treatments of: bivariate normal distribution, normal integrals, Mills' ratio, asymptotic normality, point estimation, and statistical intervals. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genesis: a historical background -- Some basic and miscellaneous results -- The normal distribution: tables, expansions and algorithms -- Characterizations -- Sampling distributions -- Limit theories and expansions -- Normal approximations to distributions -- Order statistics from normal samples -- The Wiener and Gaussian processes -- The bivariate normal distribution.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Genesis: an historical background
  • basic properties
  • expansions and algorithms
  • characterizations
  • sampling distributions
  • limit theorems and expansions
  • normal approximations to distributions
  • order statistics from normal samples
  • the bivariate normal distribution
  • bivariate normal sampling distributions
  • point estimation
  • statistical intervals

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