03327nam0 22005413i 450 VAN0026893720260702042506.393N978146124744979723742920231218d1987 |0itac50 baengUS|||| |||||i e bcrElements of Statistics for the Life and Social SciencesBraxton M. AlfredNew YorkSpringer-Verlag1987xiii, 190 p.24 cmThis book was written to myself at about the time I began graduate studies in anthropology-the sort of thing a Samuel Beckett character might do. It is about the conduct of research. In a very real sense the purpose is partially to compensate for the inadequacies of my professors. Perhaps this is what education is about. The effort has not been an unqualified success, but it has been extremely gratifying. I was trained in anthropology. After completing the Ph. D. I went to Stanford on a post-doctoral fellowship. At the time, this was a novelty and the depart­ ment was not prepared for such a thing. To stay occupied I began attending lectures, seminars, and discussion groups in mathematics and statistics. This was about the luckiest choice I ever made. The excitement was easily as intense as that which I experienced upon encountering anthropology. On one oc­ casion I innocently and independently proved a theorem that had first been done 2000 years earlier. It is currently used as an exercise in high school mathematics so it is neither difficult nor arcane. Learning all this did not tarnish my sense of discovery. (On reflection I am puzzled by my failure to have seen all this "beauty" when I was exposed to it as an undergraduate. The unparalleled excellence of the Stanford program was undoubtedly responsible for my belated conversion.001VAN000367912001 Springer texts in statistics210 Berlin [etc.]Springer1985-62-XXStatistics [MSC 2020]VANC022998MF62PxxApplications of statistics [MSC 2020]VANC027777MFBaseKW:KCausalityKW:KComplex Data StructuresKW:KData StructuresKW:KDistributionKW:KLogarithmsKW:KLogicKW:KMatrixKW:KMechanicsKW:KPopulationKW:KProbability theoryKW:KSoftwareKW:KStatisticsKW:KTestingKW:KUSNew YorkVANL000011AlfredBraxton M.VANV220724535272Springer <editore>VANV108073650ITSOL20260911RICAhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4744-9E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o ShibbolethBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICAIT-CE0120VAN08NVAN00268937BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICA08DLOAD e-book 7818 08eMF7818 20231220 Elements of statistics for the life and social sciences923368UNICAMPANIA