Statistics for experimenters: design, innovation, and discovery

Preface to the Second Edition. Chapter 1. Catalizing the Generation of Knowledge. 1.1. The Learning Process. 1.2. Important Considerations. 1.3. The Experimenter's Problem and Statistical Methods. 1.4. A Typical Investigation. 1.5. How to Use Statistical Techniques. References and Further Reading. Chapter 2. Basics: Probability, Parameters and Statistics. 2.1. Experimental Error. 2.2. Distributions. 2.3. Statistics and Parameters. 2.4. Measures of Location and Spread. 2.5. The Normal Distribution. 2.6. Normal Probability Plots. 2.7. Randomness and Random Variables. 2.8. Covariance and Correlation as Measures of Linear Dependence. 2.9. Student's t Distribution. 2.10. Estimates of Parameters. 2.11. Random…