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Books that were originally presented as Gifford Lectures. Pages in category "Gifford Lectures books" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
OpenIntro Statistics is an open-source textbook for introductory statistics, written by David Diez, Christopher Barr, and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. [ 1 ] The textbook is available online as a free PDF, as LaTeX source and as a royalty-free paperback.
The Unanswered Question is a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. This series of six lectures was a component of Bernstein's duties as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the 1972/73 academic year at Harvard University, and is therefore often referred to as the Norton Lectures.
On the one hand, there is widespread agreement that the Key Stage 4 curriculum is over-crowded and that the introduction of Statistics and Data Handling may have been at the expense of time needed for practising and acquiring fluency in core mathematical manipulations. Many in higher education mathematics and engineering departments take this view.
Statistics is a field of inquiry that studies the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines , from the physical and social sciences to the humanities ; it is also used and misused for making informed decisions in all areas of business and government .
The Harvey Society Lectures do not deal with any single phase of human biological phenomena. They represent a sort of symposium in which workers from various fields of science report their results. In choosing the lecturers, however, the attempt is made to bring together men who have some interest in the problems of human disease, though it is ...
In statistics, the 68–95–99.7 rule, also known as the empirical rule, and sometimes abbreviated 3sr or 3 σ, is a shorthand used to remember the percentage of values that lie within an interval estimate in a normal distribution: approximately 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the values lie within one, two, and three standard deviations of the mean ...
Probability and statistics are two closely related fields in mathematics that are sometimes combined for academic purposes. [1] They are covered in multiple articles and lists: Probability; Statistics; Glossary of probability and statistics; Notation in probability and statistics; Timeline of probability and statistics