World Health Statistics 2016 : Monitoring Health for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). by Organization, World Health

Table of Contents: “…6.2 Health-related targets in other goals -- many targets linked to health -- 6.3 Situation in 2016 -- a sketch based on global data -- Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health -- Infectious diseases -- Noncommunicable diseases and mental health -- Injuries and violence -- Health systems -- 6.4 Data gaps -- need for strong country health information systems -- Annex A: Summaries of the SDG health and health-related targets -- Explanatory notes -- Target 3.1 Maternal mortality -- Target 3.1 Births attended by skilled health personnel -- Target 3.2 Child mortality -- Target 3.3 HIV -- Target 3.3 Tuberculosis -- Target 3.3 Malaria -- Target 3.3 Hepatitis -- Target 3.3 Neglected tropical diseases -- Target 3.4 Noncommunicable diseases -- Target 3.4 Suicide -- Target 3.5 Substance abuse -- Target 3.6 Road traffic injuries -- Target 3.7 Sexual and reproductive health -- Target 3.9 Mortality due to air pollution -- Target 3.9 Mortality due to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene -- Target 3.9 Mortality due to unintentional poisoning -- Target 3.a Tobacco use -- Target 3.b Essential medicines and vaccines -- Target 3.c Health workforce -- Target 3.d National and global health risks -- Target 2.2 Child stunting -- Target 2.2 Child wasting and overweight -- Target 6.1 Drinking-water -- Target 6.2 Sanitation -- Target 7.1 Clean household energy -- Target 11.6 Ambient air pollution -- Target 13.1 Natural disaster -- Target 16.1 Homicide -- Target 16.1 Conflicts -- Annex B: Tables of health statistics by country, WHO region and globally -- Explanatory notes -- Annex C: WHO regional groupings.…”
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Algebraic methods in statistics and probability : AMS Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, April 8-9, 2000, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana /

Table of Contents: “…Viana -- Extendibility of statistical models / E. Wit and P. McCullagh.…”
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Understanding elections through statistics : polling, prediction, and testing / by Forsberg, Ole J.

Subjects: “…Elections Statistics.…”
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Understanding statistics in the behavioral sciences / by Bakeman, Roger

Table of Contents: “…12 Single-Factor Between-Subjects Studies13 Planned Comparisons, Post Hoc Tests, and Adjusted Means; 14 Studies With Multiple Between-Subjects Factors; 15 Single-Factor Within-Subjects Studies; 16 Two-Factor Studies With Repeated Measures; 17 Power, Pitfalls, and Practical Matters; References; Glossary of Symbols and Key Terms; Appendix A: SAS exercises; Appendix B: Answers To Selected Exercises; Appendix C: Statistical Tables; Author Ind.…”
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Introductory statistics for engineering experimentation / by Nelson, Peter R.

Subjects: “…Engineering Statistical methods.…”
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Statistical Approaches to Measurement Invariance. by Millsap, Roger E.

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Statistical Approaches to Measurement Invariance; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. …”
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Mastering Statistical Process Control : a Handbook for Performance Improvement using Cases. by Stapenhurst, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Mastering Statistical Process Control; Contents; List of Figures; List of Charts; List of Case Studies and Examples; Reference of Charts; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 An Introduction to the Theory of SPC; Part 2 Exploding Data Analysis Myths; Part 3 Putting SPC into Practice -- The Cases; Part 4 Implementing and Using SPC; Part 5 Developing SPC Skills: Organisational Review Questions, Workshops and Exercises; Part 6 An Introduction to Six Sigma; Bibliography, references and other resources; Experimental Resources; Appendix A; Glossary of terms and symbols; Index.…”
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New trends in statistical physics : festschrift in honor of Leopoldo García-Colín's 80th birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Statistical physics and related subjects -- Statistical physics and biological physics -- Statistical physics and solid state physics -- Statistical physics, cosmology and relativity.…”
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Statistical analysis of profile monitoring / by Noorossana, Rassoul, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Frontmatter -- Introduction to Profile Monitoring / Abbas Saghaei, Rassoul Noorossana -- Simple Linear Profiles / Mahmoud A Mahmoud -- Multiple Linear and Polynomial Profiles / Amirhossein Amiri, Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh -- Binary Response Profiles / Arthur Yeh, Longcheen Huwang -- Parametric Nonlinear Profiles / James D Williams -- Nonparametric Nonlinear Profiles / Eric Chicken -- Multivariate Linear Profiles Monitoring / Rassoul Noorossana, Majid Eyvazian -- Statistical Process Control for Geometric Specifications / Bianca Maria Colosimo, Quirico Semeraro, Massimo Pacella -- Correlation and Autocorrelation in Profiles / Willis A Jensen, Jeffrey B Birch -- Nonparametric Profile Monitoring / Changliang Zou -- Index -- Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics.…”
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Statistical Learning for Biomedical Data. by Malley, James D.

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Statistical mechanics of disordered systems : a mathematical perspective / by Bovier, Anton, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Nomenclature; 1 Introduction; 2 Principles of statistical mechanics; 3 Lattice gases and spin systems; 4 The Gibbsian formalism for lattice spin systems; 5 Cluster expansions; 6 Gibbsian formalism and metastates; 7 The random-field Ising model; 8 Disordered mean-field models; 9 The random energy model; 10 Derrida's generalized random energy models; 11 The SK models and the Parisi solution; 12 Hopfield models; 13 The number partitioning problem; References; Index.…”
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Translating statistics to make decisions : a guide for the non-statistician / by Cox, Victoria

Table of Contents: “…Significant DifferencesPractical Differences; Plots; Interpretation; Hypothesis Tests; Binary Data; One-Sample Binary Data; Two-Sample Binary Data; Paired Binary Data; Continuous Data; One-Sample Normally Distributed Data; One-Sample Non-Normally Distributed Data; Two-Sample Normally Distributed Data; Two-Sample Non-Normally Distributed Data; Paired Normally Distributed Data; Paired Non-Normally Distributed Data; Summary; Chapter 7: Statistical Modeling; Statistical Model Components; Model Assumptions; Model Structure; Model Process; Model Output; Statistical Models; Simple Models.…”
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Statistical tests of nonparametric hypotheses : asymptotic theory. by Pons, Odile

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1.1 Definitions; 1.2 Rank tests and empirical distribution functions; 1.3 Hypotheses of the tests; 1.4 Weak convergence of the test statistics; 1.5 Tests for densities and curves; 1.6 Asymptotic levels of tests; 1.7 Permutation and bootstrap tests; 1.8 Relative efficiency of tests; 2. …”
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Handbook of mathematics and statistics for the environment / by Spellman, Frank R., Whiting, Nancy E.

Table of Contents: “…Fundamental conversions, computations, modeling, and algorithms -- section II. Statistics, risk measurement, and Boolean algebra -- section III. …”
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Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health care professionals / by Bowers, David, 1938-

Subjects: “…Medical statistics.…”
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Integrating Federal Statistics on Children : Report of a Workshop. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Appendix Workshop on Integrating Federal Statistics on Children""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Integrating Federal Statistics on Children""; ""Workshop Summary""; ""Workshop Papers""; ""Childrenâ€?…”
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Testing statistical assumptions in research / by Verma, J. P., Abdel-Salam, Abdel-Salam G.

Table of Contents: “…Importance of Assumptions in Using Statistical Techniques -- Introduction of SPSS and Segregation of Data -- Assumptions in Survey Studies -- Assumptions in Parametric Tests -- Assumptions in Nonparametric Tests -- Assumptions in Nonparametric Correlations -- Statistical Tables.…”
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Statistics for library and information services : a primer for using open source R software for accessibility and visualization / by Friedman, Alon, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Research design -- Data (types and collection methods) -- How to run R -- Descriptive statistics -- Bivariate statistics -- Probability theory -- Random variables and probability distributions -- Sampling distributions -- Confidence interval estimation -- Fundamentals of hypothesis testing -- Correlation and regression -- Analysis of variances and chi-square tests -- Time series and predictive analytics -- Visualization display -- Advanced visualization display -- Applying visualization to statistics analysis -- Appendix A. …”
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Statistical analysis in climate research / by Storch, H. v. (Hans von), 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Fitting Statistical Models. 8. Regression. 9. Analysis of Variance -- IV. …”
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Statistical issues in drug development / by Senn, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…A brief and superficial history of statistics for drug developers -- Design and interpretation of clinical trials as seen by a statistician -- Probability, Bayes, P-values, tests of hypotheses, and confidence intervals -- The work of the pharmaceutical statistician -- Allocating treatments to patients in clinical trials -- Baselines and covariate information.…”
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Group theory, statistics, and cryptography : AMS Special Session Combinatorial and Statistical Group Theory, April 12-13, 2003, New York University /

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More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues / by Best, Joel

Table of Contents: “…Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Magical numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?…”
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Medical Statistics from Scratch : an Introduction for Health Professionals.

Table of Contents: “…-- II Descriptive Statistics -- 2 Describing Data with Tables -- Learning Objectives -- What is Descriptive Statistics? …”
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Research Design and Statistical Analysis : Third Edition. by Myers, Jerome L.

Table of Contents: “…; 4.3 The Binomial Distribution; 4.4 Hypothesis Testing; 4.5 The Power of a Statistical Test; 4.6 When Assumptions Fail.…”
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Statistical methods for quality improvement / by Ryan, Thomas P., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Statistical Methods forQuality Improvement; Contents; Preface; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; PART I FUNDAMENTAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Quality and Productivity; 1.2 Quality Costs (or Does It?)…”
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Recent Advances in Statistical Methods : the 4th Conference in Applied Statistics. by Chaubey, Yogendra P.

Table of Contents: “…Unemployment, Search and the Gender Wage Gap: A Structural Model (C Belzil & X Zhang); Kullback-Leibler Optimization of Density Estimates (A Berlinet & E Brunel); The Asymptotic Distribution of Spacings of Order Statistics (M G Bickis); Second-Order Moments and Mutual Information in the Analysis of Time Series (D R Brillinger); On the Robustness of Relative Surprise Inferences to the Choice of Prior (M Evans & T Zou); Using Survival Analysis in Pretern Birth Study (C Y Fu & S H Liu); A Nested Frailty Survival Model for Recurrent Events (R Ma et al.); Testing Goodness-of-Fit of the Gamma Models (C E Marchetti et al.); On Frailty Models and Copulas (D Oakes); Surrogate Data and Fractional Brownian Motion (P Rabinovitch); Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models: Recent Developments (P S R S Rao & N Zaino); Computational Sequence Analysis: Genomics and Statistical Controversies (P K Sen); Universal Optimality of Completely Randomized Designs (K R Shah & B K Sinha); Generalized Smoothed Estimating Functions with Censored Observations (A Thavaneswaran & J Singh); and other papers.…”
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Computational and Statistical Group Theory. by Gilman, Robert

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Statistical signal processing in engineering / by Spagnolini, Umberto

Subjects: “…Signal processing Statistical methods.…”
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World Health Statistics 2018 : Monitoring Health for the SDGs Sustainable Development Goals.

Subjects: “…World health Statistics.…”
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Computer intensive methods in statistics / by Zwanzig, Silvelyn, Mahjani, Behrang

Subjects: “…Statistics Data processing.…”
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Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods From Hypothesis to Results. by Martin, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods: From Hypothesis to Results -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview -- Review of Foundational Research Concepts -- Independent, Dependent, and Extraneous Variables -- Scales of Measurement of Variables -- Review of Foundational Statistical Information -- Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Variability (Dispersion) of Scores -- Variance of the Sample (s2) -- Standard Deviation of the Sample (s) -- Coefficient of Variation (C)…”
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Statistical tools for epidemiologic research / by Selvin, S.

Subjects: “…Epidemiology Statistical methods.…”
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Statistical advances in the biomedical sciences : clinical trials, epidemiology, survival analysis, and bioinformatics /

Table of Contents: “…Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; PART I CLINICAL TRIALS; 1. …”
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The statistical mechanics of lattice gases. Volume 1 by Simon, Barry, 1946-

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Statistical mechanics of membranes and surfaces /

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 The Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Interfaces David R. …”
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Handbook of statistical systems biology /

Subjects: “…Systems biology Statistical methods Handbooks, manuals, etc.…”
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Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance : Methods, Models and Applications / by Steland, Ansgar

Table of Contents: “…Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance: Methods, Models and Applications; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Elementary financial calculus; 1.1 Motivating examples; 1.2 Cashflows, interest rates, prices and returns; 1.2.1 Bonds and the term structure of interest rates; 1.2.2 Asset returns; 1.2.3 Some basic models for asset prices; 1.3 Elementary statistical analysis of returns; 1.3.1 Measuring location; 1.3.2 Measuring dispersion and risk; 1.3.3 Measuring skewness and kurtosis; 1.3.4 Estimation of the distribution; 1.3.5 Testing for normality; 1.4 Financial instruments.…”
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Statistics taught through fiction / by Górniak, Krzysztof Z.

Subjects: “…Statistics Popular works.…”
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Statistical methods for human rights /

Table of Contents: “…The statistics of genocide /…”
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Lévy statistics and laser cooling : how rare events bring atoms to rest /

Table of Contents: “…Subrecoil cooling and Levy statistics --…”
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