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A Primer on Statistical Distributions Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)

A Primer on Statistical Distributions By Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)

A Primer on Statistical Distributions by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)

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Designed as an introduction to statistical distribution theory. Includes a first chapter on basic notations and definitions that are essential to working with distributions. Remaining chapters are divided into three parts: Discrete Distributions, Continuous Distributions, and Multivariate Distributions.

A Primer on Statistical Distributions Summary

A Primer on Statistical Distributions by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)

Designed as an introduction to statistical distribution theory.
* Includes a first chapter on basic notations and definitions that are essential to working with distributions.
* Remaining chapters are divided into three parts: Discrete Distributions, Continuous Distributions, and Multivariate Distributions.
* Exercises are incorporated throughout the text in order to enhance understanding of materials just taught.

A Primer on Statistical Distributions Reviews

"a good reference for statisticians to have available on their bookshelfit would not be difficult to build an interesting and relevant course around this book that would be highly beneficial to our students" (Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2004)

...a very interesting and useful book...highly recommended... (Choice, Vol. 41, No. 5, January 2004)

About Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

V. B. NEVZOROV, PhD, DS, is Professor of Probability and Statistics at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Preliminaries.

I. DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS.

Discrete Uniform Distribution.

Degenerate Distribution.

Bernoulli Distribution.

Binomial Distribution.

Geometric Distribution.

Negative Binomial Distribution.

Hypergeometric Distribution.

Poisson Distribution.

Miscellanea.

II. CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS.

Uniform Distribution.

Cauchy Distribution.

Triangular Distribution.

Power Distribution.

Pareto Distribution.

Beta Distribution.

Arcsine Distribution.

Exponential Distribution.

Laplace Distribution.

Gamma Distribution.

Extreme Value Distributions.

Logistic Distribution.

Normal Distribution.

Miscellanea.

III. MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS.

Multinomial Distribution.

Multivariate Normal Distribution.

Dirichlet Distribution.

Appendix - Pioneers in Distribution Theory.

Bibliography.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

Additional information

NPB9780471427988
9780471427988
0471427985
A Primer on Statistical Distributions by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)
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Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2003-07-28
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