Table of Contents

PREFACE; A-Z DICTIONARY OF STATISTICS; APPENDICES; Statistical Notation; Mathematical Notation; Greek Letters; Cumulative Probabilities for the Bionomial Distribution; Cumulative Probabilities for the Poisson Distribution; Upper-Tail Percentage Points for the Standard Normal Distribution; The Standard Normal Distribution Function; Percentage Points for the t-Distribution; Percentage Points for the F-Distribution; Percentage Points for the Chi-Squared Distribution; Critical Values for Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient; Critical Values for Kendall; Critical Values for the Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, r; Pseudo-Random Numbers; Selected Landmarks in the Development of Statistics; Further Reference; Useful websites

About the Author

Graham Upton is Professor of Statistics and head of the Mathematical Department at the University of Essex. He is a graduate of Leicester and Birmingham Universities and lectured at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne for five years before moving to Essex. He has given lecture courses at the Universities of Dokkyo (Tokyo), Grenoble, Michigan, and ITAM (Mexico). Dr Upton is the author of over 80 papers and five books, including Understanding Statistics with Ian Cook, (Oxford, 1996), and Introducing Statistics (Oxford, 1998), also with Ian Cook.
Ian Cook is a graduate of the universities of Cambridge, London, and Hull (where he was a lecturer in mathematics). He moved to Essex as a Senior Lecturer in 1964, taking early retirement in 1985. He has been a Chief Examiner in Mathematics at A Level for 30 years, setting questions in all branches of mathematics and statistics. He acts as a referee for articles in the Mathematical Gazette and Teaching Statistics. He is co-author with Graham Upton of Understanding Statistics, and Introducing Statistics.