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Page 1788 of 1841

  • Preface to the First Edition

  • D. V. Lindley, W. F. Scott, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
  • Book:
    New Cambridge Statistical Tables
    Published online:
    12 September 2018
    Print publication:
    03 August 1995, pp 3-3

  • Summary

    The raison d'être of this set of tables is the same as that of the set it replaces, the Cambridge Elementary Statistical Tables (Lindley and Miller, 1953), and is described in the first paragraph of their preface.

    This set of tables is concerned only with the commoner and more familiar and elementary of the many statistical functions and tests of significance now available. It is hoped that the values provided will meet the majority of the needs of many users of statistical methods in scientific research, technology and industry in a compact and handy form, and that the collection will provide a convenient set of tables for the teaching and study of statistics in schools and universities.

    The concept of what constitutes a familiar or elementary statistical procedure has changed in 30 years and, as a result, many statistical tables not in the earlier set have been included, together with tables of the binomial, hypergeometric and Poisson distributions. A large part of the earlier set of tables consisted of functions of the integers. These are now readily available elsewhere, or can be found using even the simplest of pocket calculators, and have therefore been omitted.

    The binomial, Poisson, hypergeometric, normal, χ 2 and t distributions have been fully tabulated so that all values within the ranges of the arguments chosen can be found. Linear, and in some cases quadratic or harmonic, interpolation will sometimes be necessary and a note on this has been provided.

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