Principles Of Applied Statistics And Information Management

Principles of Applied Statistics provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of statistical techniques and their applications. Explaining the methods of information management with reference to computer packages including MINITAB, this text will develop the skills of the manager seeking to use information accurately and effectively.

Applied statistics is more than data analysis, but it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. David Cox and Christl Donnelly distil decades of scientific experience into usable principles for the successful application of statistics, showing how good statistical strategy shapes every stage of an investigation. As you advance from research or policy question, to study design, through modelling and interpretation, and finally to meaningful conclusions, this book will be a valuable guide. Over a hundred illustrations from a wide variety of real applications make the conceptual points concrete, illuminating your path and deepening your understanding. This book is essential reading for anyone who makes extensive use of statistical methods in their work.

A guide to using S-Plus to perform statistical analyses, serving as both an introduction to the use of S-Plus and as a course in modern statistical methods. The experienced authors show how to use S-Plus as a powerful and graphical system, with the emphasis on presenting practical problems and full analyses of real data sets throughout. A basic grounding in statistics is assumed, making this book suitable for would-be users of S-Plus, as well as students and researchers using statistics.

This directory lists education institutions world-wide where professional education and training programmes in the field of library, archive and information science are carried out at a tertiary level of education or higher. More than ten years after the publication of the last edition, this up-to-date reference source includes more than 900 universities and other institutions, and more than 1.500 relevant programmes. Entries provide contact information as well as details such as statistical information, tuition fees, admission requirements, programmes' contents.