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Statistics for Engineers and Scientists stands out for its crystal clear presentation of applied statistics. Suitable for a one or two semester course, the book takes a practical approach to methods of statistical modeling and data analysis that are most often used in scientific work. Statistics for Engineers and Scientists features a unique approach highlighted by an engaging writing style that explains difficult concepts clearly, along with the use of contemporary real world data sets to help motivate students and show direct connections to industry and research. While focusing on practical applications of statistics, the text makes extensive use of examples to motivate fundamental concepts and to develop intuition. McGraw-Hill is also proud to offer ConnectPlus powered by Maple with the fourth edition of Navidi's, Statistics for Engineers and Scientists. This innovative and powerful new system helps your students learn more easily and gives you the ability to customize your homework problems and assign them simply and easily to your students. Problems are graded automatically, and the results are recorded immediately. Natural Math Notation allows for answer entry in many different forms, and the system allows for easy customization and authoring of exercises by the instructor. Navidi's Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, fourth edition, includes the power of McGraw-Hill's LearnSmart - a proven adaptive learning program that helps students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge for greater success. LearnSmart is included in ConnectPlus powered by Maple.

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• Arithmetic mean

  The arithmetic mean of a set of numbers x1 , x2 ,…, xn is their sum divided by the number of observations, or ( / )1 1 n xi t n ? = . The arithmetic mean is usually denoted by x , and is often called the average

• Bayes’ theorem

  An equation for a conditional probability such as PA B ( | ) in terms of the reverse conditional probability PB A ( | ).

• Biased estimator

  Unbiased estimator.

• Center line

  A horizontal line on a control chart at the value that estimates the mean of the statistic plotted on the chart. See Control chart.

• Central limit theorem

  The simplest form of the central limit theorem states that the sum of n independently distributed random variables will tend to be normally distributed as n becomes large. It is a necessary and suficient condition that none of the variances of the individual random variables are large in comparison to their sum. There are more general forms of the central theorem that allow ininite variances and correlated random variables, and there is a multivariate version of the theorem.

• Continuity correction.

  A correction factor used to improve the approximation to binomial probabilities from a normal distribution.

• Control chart

  A graphical display used to monitor a process. It usually consists of a horizontal center line corresponding to the in-control value of the parameter that is being monitored and lower and upper control limits. The control limits are determined by statistical criteria and are not arbitrary, nor are they related to speciication limits. If sample points fall within the control limits, the process is said to be in-control, or free from assignable causes. Points beyond the control limits indicate an out-of-control process; that is, assignable causes are likely present. This signals the need to ind and remove the assignable causes.

• Counting techniques

  Formulas used to determine the number of elements in sample spaces and events.

• Critical region

  In hypothesis testing, this is the portion of the sample space of a test statistic that will lead to rejection of the null hypothesis.

• Critical value(s)

  The value of a statistic corresponding to a stated signiicance level as determined from the sampling distribution. For example, if PZ z PZ ( )( .) . ? =? = 0 025 . 1 96 0 025, then z0 025 . = 1 9. 6 is the critical value of z at the 0.025 level of signiicance. Crossed factors. Another name for factors that are arranged in a factorial experiment.

• Cumulative sum control chart (CUSUM)

  A control chart in which the point plotted at time t is the sum of the measured deviations from target for all statistics up to time t

• Curvilinear regression

  An expression sometimes used for nonlinear regression models or polynomial regression models.

• Defect

  Used in statistical quality control, a defect is a particular type of nonconformance to speciications or requirements. Sometimes defects are classiied into types, such as appearance defects and functional defects.

• Deming

  W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) was a leader in the use of statistical quality control.

• Distribution function

  Another name for a cumulative distribution function.

• Eficiency

  A concept in parameter estimation that uses the variances of different estimators; essentially, an estimator is more eficient than another estimator if it has smaller variance. When estimators are biased, the concept requires modiication.

• Estimate (or point estimate)

  The numerical value of a point estimator.

• Experiment

  A series of tests in which changes are made to the system under study

• Exponential random variable

  A series of tests in which changes are made to the system under study

• Gamma random variable

  A random variable that generalizes an Erlang random variable to noninteger values of the parameter r

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