Calculus

This book offers an overview of the central ideas in calculus and gives examples of how calculus is used to translate many real-world phenomena into mathematical functions. Beginning with an explanation of the two major parts of calculus - differentiation and integration - Gudmund R Iversen illustrates how calculus is used in statistics: to distinguish between the mean and the median; to derive the least squares formulas for regression co-efficients; to find values of parameters from theoretical distributions; and to find a statistical p-value when using one of the continuous test variables such as the t-variable.

List of contents

Introduction
Differentiation
Integration
Applications

Product details

• Authors: Gudmund R. Iversen
• Assisted by: Gudmund R. Iversen (Editor)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780803971103
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7110-3
• No. of pages: 90
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 126 g
• Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences; Quantitative Applications in t; Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences; Quantitative Applications in t
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Analysis