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THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF STATISTICS
FOURTH EDITION
If you work with data and need easy access to clear, reliable definitions and explanations of
modern statistical and statistics related concepts, then look no further than this dictionary.
Nearly 4000 terms are defined, covering medical, survey, theoretical and applied statistics,
putational and graphical aspects. Entries are provided for standard and
specialized statistical software. In addition, short biographies of over 100 important statis
ticians are given. Definitions provide enough mathematical detail to clarify concepts and
give standard formulae when these are helpful. The majority of definitions then give a
reference to a book or article where the user can seek further or more specialized informa
tion, and many are panied by graphical material to aid understanding.
B. S. EVERITT is Professor Emeritus of King’s College London. He is the author of
almost 60 books on statistics puting, including Medical Statistics from A to Z,
also from Cambridge University Press.
A. SKRONDAL is Senior Statistician in the Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute
of Public Health and Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Mathematics, University
of Oslo. Previous positions include Professor of Statistics and Director of The Methodology
Institute at the London School of Economics.
THE
CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY
OF
Statistics
Fourth Edition
B. S. EVERITT
Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
A. SKRONDAL
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
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