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Known for more "first flights" and record flights than any other place, Edwards Air Force Base is legendary. Centered around an ancient dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert 90 miles north of Los Angeles, activity at Edwards has sharpened the cutting edge of aviation and aerospace since the 1940s. The complex is a strategic flight test, research, and development center for the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and civilian contractors. Since the 1950s, almost every U.S. military aircraft has been partially tested here. The skies above Edwards have been the scene of remarkable achievements, including Chuck Yeager's world-famous breaking of the sound barrier in 1947. The base was first established near the small town of Muroc in 1933 and became renowned for its giant runways painted onto the flat, dry lakebed. Speed and altitude records were commonplace at Edwards during the 1950s. Suborbital space flights began there in the 1960s. In the 1970s it was the primary testing site for the space shuttle program. Dramatic aerospace research continues today at Edwards, America's proving ground for the future of high tech aviation.
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Author Ted Huetter is the public relations manager for The Museum of Flight in Seattle and was an aviation writer and multimedia designer at Edwards Air Force Base during the 1990s. Coauthor Christian Gelzer is the chief historian for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards.
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Aufbauend auf einer ausführlichen Darstellung der wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen
Grundbegriffe und deren Anwendungen werden die Gesetze der großen Zahlen
und der zentrale Grenzwertsatz behandelt, gefolgt von einer Darstellung
der statistischen Modellbildung, der Schätztheorie und der Testtheorie.
Ziel des Buches ist es, den mit den Grundlagen der Mathematik vertrauten
Leser in die Methoden der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statistik so einzuführen,
dass dieser ein verlässliches Fundament an Kenntnissen erwirbt, sowohl
für die Anwendung dieser Methoden bei praktischen Problemen als auch für
weiterführende Studien.
