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THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY Of Statistics
الطبعة الثانية 2002
The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics aims to provide students of statistics, workingstatisticians and researchers in many disciplines who are users of statistics withrelatively concise definitions of statistical terms. All areas of statistics are covered,theoretical, applied, medical, etc., although, as in any dictionary, the choice of whichterms to include and which to exclude, is likely to reflect some aspects of the compiler’s main areas of interest, and I have no illusions that this dictionary is any different. My hope is that the dictionary will provide a useful source of reference for bothspecialists and non-specialists alike. Many definitions necessarily contain some mathematical formulae and/or nomeclature, others contain none. But the difference inmathematical content and level amongthe definitions will, with luck, largely reflectthe type of reader likely to turn to a particular definition. The non-specialist lookingup, for example, Student’s t-tests will hopefully find the simple formulae and associated written material more than adequate to satisfy their curiosity, while the specialist seekinga quick reminder about spline functions will find the more extensivetechnical material just what they need.The dictionary contains approximately 3000 headwords and short biographies ofmore than 100 important statisticians (fellow statisticians who regard themselves as‘important’ but who are not included here should note the single common characteristics of those who are). Several forms of cross-referencingare used. Terms in slantedroman in an entry appear as a separate headword, although headwords definingrelatively commonly occurringterms such as random variable, probability, distribution, population, sample, etc., are not referred to in this way. Some entries simply referreaders to another entry. This may indicate that the terms are synonyms or, alternatively, that the term is more conveniently discussed under another entry. In thelatter case the term is printed in italics in the main entry.Entries are in alphabetical order usingthe letter-by-letter rather than the word-byword convention. In terms containingnumbers or Greek letters, the numbers orcorresponding English word are spelt out and alphabetized accordingly. So, forexample, 2 2 table is found under two-by-two table, and -trimmed mean, underalpha-trimmed mean. Only headings corresponding to names are inverted, so theentry for William Gossett is found under Gosset, William. but there is an entryunder Box–Mu¨ ller transformation not under Transformation, Box–Mu¨ ller.For those readers seekingmore detailed information about a topic, many entriescontain either a reference to one or other of the texts listed later, or a more specificreference to a relevant book or journal article. (Entries for software contain theappropriate address.) Additional material is also available in many cases in eitherthe Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, edited by Kotz and Johnson, or theEncyclopedia of Biostatistics, edited by Armitage and Colton, both published byWiley. Extended biographies of many of the people included in this dictionary canalso be found in these two encyclopedias and also in Leading Personalities inStatistical Sciences by Johnson and Kotz published in 1997 again by Wiley.
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