Statistical Intervals A Guide for Practitioners

Presents a detailed exposition of statistical intervals and emphasizes applications in industry. The discussion differentiates at an elementary level among different kinds of statistical intervals and gives instruction with numerous examples and simple math on how to construct such intervals from sample data. This includes confidence intervals to contain a population percentile, confidence intervals on probability of meeting specified threshold value, and prediction intervals to include observation in a future sample. Also has an appendix containing computer subroutines for nonparametric statistical intervals.Hahn, Gerald J. is the author of 'Statistical Intervals A Guide for Practitioners', published 1991 under ISBN 9780471887690 and ISBN 0471887692.