Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications

摘要

Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications is a reference text for practitioners who are familiar with statistical methodology but who are not experts in statistics. This text is fairly successful for persons with such a background, which means that it may not be of high interest to many readers of The American Statistician (TAS).rnThis reference book discusses, as the title implies, many of the most common parametric distributions as well as some less common distributions and distributions of test statistics used in nonparametric inference. The book is divided into 36 chapters. The first chapter is a brief introduction to the theory of statistics. The next 28 chapters each cover one parametric distribution, and then five chapters cover topics in nonparametrics. Finally, the last two chapters cover tolerance factors for a multivariate normal population and the multiple correlation coefficient.