书目名称 | Elements of Statistics for the Life and Social Sciences |
编辑 | Braxton M. Alfred |
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丛书名称 | Springer Texts in Statistics |
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描述 | This 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 |
出版日期 | Textbook 1987 |
关键词 | Base; Logic; Matrix; causality; complex data structures; data structures; distribution; logarithms; mechanic |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4744-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-9138-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4612-4744-9Series ISSN 1431-875X Series E-ISSN 2197-4136 |
issn_series | 1431-875X |
copyright | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1987 |