Table of Contents

Part I: Probability
1. Basic Probability
2. Random Variables and Probability Distributions
3. Mathematical Expectation
4. Special Probability Distributions

Part II: Statistics
5. Sampling Theory
6. Estimation Theory
7. Tests of Hypotheses and Significance
8. Curve Fitting, Regression, and Correlation
9. Analysis of Variance
10. Nonparametric Tests

About the Author

Alu Srinivasan is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He received an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Wayne State University, and was Chair of Temple's Mathematics Department from 1990 to 1998. His primary research interests are in applied and mathematical statistics, combinatorics and probability. He has published some seventy papers in these areas and has supervised a dozen Ph.D. dissertations in statistical inference and biostatistics.