Product Description

Volume 2 presents detailed descriptions of virtually all the important statistical distributions commonly used in a wide range of applied areas. DLC: Distribution (Probability theory)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #435294 in Books
• Published on: 1995-05-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 752 pages

Customer Reviews

Johnson et al. (2nd Ed.) Continuous Univariate Distributions
Johnson and Kotz in particular continue their series of ongoing descriptions and analyses of probability/statistics distributions which is an ingenious production. They have the Creative Genius talents of summarizing, organizing, emphasizing open questions, and open mindedness to new ideas (although I have not quite tested them on some very ideas of my own). These qualities in various combinations can also be found in Allday's 1998 book in physics (which I reviewed)and Weinberg's 1974 and later books in physics (some of which I reviewed). Johnson et al. have some Creative Genius categories which are rarely found. For one thing, they cross-categorize distributions ("graphs" for the non-specialist)by their applications to real world problems, which is usually notoriously lacking in math and physics publications (beyond one or two problems). Secondly, they CHARACTERIZE distributions by various properties such as heredity (the same distribution holds for a sum of variables as for one variable, etc.), exponential derivation from other distributions, conditional expectations (I would prefer logic-based probability (LBP) expectations, but it's better than nothing), etc. In other words, their very categorization of distributions is by critical research categories and fundamental logical-factual categories, at least as far as they know them. I recommend this book and the whole series from the same authors (or at least most of them) without reservations except the ones mentioned for LBP, and I urge specialists in these fields to recommend that their students and even "laymen" (non-academic people)purchase this volume and hire a consultant or tutor to translate them or explain them in closer to ordinary English if their probability/statistical background is lacking or deficient.