Probability, Statistics and Other Frightening Stuff

This practical guide to probability and statistics explains these concepts that underpin all professional estimating. Alan Jones considers what are called Measures of Central Tendency; Means, Modes and Medians, describing the differences, relevance and uses for each in the context of Estimating and the like.

Info autore

Alan R. Jones is Principal Consultant at Estimata Limited, an estimating consultancy service. He is a Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst (US) and Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) (UK). Prior to setting up his own business, he has enjoyed a 40-year career in the UK aerospace and defence industry as an estimator, culminating in the role of Chief Estimator at BAE Systems. Alan is a Fellow of the Association of Cost Engineers and a Member of the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association. Historically (some four decades ago), Alan was a graduate in Mathematics from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, and was an MBA Prize-winner at the Henley Management College (. . . that was slightly more recent, being only two decades ago). Oh, how time flies when you are enjoying yourself.

Riassunto

This practical guide to probability and statistics explains these concepts that underpin all professional estimating. Alan Jones considers what are called Measures of Central Tendency; Means, Modes and Medians, describing the differences, relevance and uses for each in the context of Estimating and the like.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alan Jones
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.01.2025
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9781032948539
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294853-9
• Numero di pagine: 500
• Serie: Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting
• Categorie: MAD, Business & Economics / General, Economics, The arts: general issues, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Forecasting, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management, Mathematics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Project Management, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / Estimating, environmental science, engineering & technology, Project management, cost accounting, business strategy, Industrial / commercial art & design, Engineering: general, Production & quality control management, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector, Production and quality control management, The arts: general topics, Data Set, Weibull distribution, CDF, Volume III, Chi Squared Distribution, Pareto Distribution, Student’s T-distribution, AAD, Triangular Distribution, estimating and forecasting, Excel statistical functions, advanced outlier identification techniques, cost engineering methods, Spearman’s Rank Correlation, JB Statistic, normal copula, Chauvenet’s Criterion, Skewness coefficient, Microsoft Excel Functions, Peirce’s Criterion, Pareto Minimum, Suspect Point, Potential Outlier, Continuous Unimodal Distributions