Statistical Inference: Populations and Samples
Gerald van Belle, Lloyd D. Fisher, Patrick J. Heagerty, Thomas Lumley · Wiley series in probability and statistics · 2004
Probability theory as the means of obtaining valid samples from a population. Multiplication and addition rules. The normal distribution as the prototypic population. Random variables. Calculating areas under the normal curve. Sampling distributions and the central limit theorem. Point and interval estimation. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. The p-value as a distance measure. Definitions of probability.