Finney, D J

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BOOK REVIEWSTATISTICS FOR MATHEMATICIANS—AN INTRODUCTION--D. J. Finney. Pub- lished by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, pp vi+213. Not Price 63a.The book is intended as the text for a ooiirso of about twenty leoturoe to students with no previous knowledge of probability or statitics. It introduces students to probability, properties of frequency distribiitions of observation and of derived statistics, exporimontal design, estimation and statistical inference. After the introductory ideas of Chapter I, in the second chapter the author introduces a particular problem of experimental science, around which the book is written. The basic notions of probability is introduced in chapter 3. Probability distributions, their properties and uses are the subject matter of chapters 4 and 5. Means, randomness and randomising, and the differences between means are discussed in chapters 6, 7 and 8 respectively. In chapters 9 and 10, /-distributions, andtheir use are studied. Finally, in the last two chapters the author presents comdscly designs of experiments and theory of estimation. It contains an appendix providing details of the mothematical operations which arc omitted from the text.Through, the book is intended to introduce mathematical statistics to every serious student of mathematics, it will be useful to students ofexperimental sciences particularly for the last two chapters. Frequent reference to the interplay of the biological problems centering tlie particular problem (in chapter 2) may prove serious limitations on its use, contrary to the expectation of the author.N. D. 5. G.680

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