• DOI:10.1198/tas.2002.s203
Corpus ID: 118680493

An Introduction to Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics

@article{Cohen1979AnIT,
  title={An Introduction to Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics},
  author={A. Cohen},
  journal={The American Statistician},
  year={1979},
  volume={56},
  pages={331 - 332}
}

A. Cohen

Published 1979

Mathematics

The American Statistician

“Working the Web,” “Reporting a Disease Outbreak,” and “What Makes a Good Reporter?” Given the extensive collection of information, how could anyone fail to learn something useful from reading this book? There are a few statistical misinterpretations. The most egregious is a misunderstanding of the meaning of p values, presenting the conditional probability in the wrong direction: “All that p values represent is the probability that the experimental results could be the product of chance alone… CONTINUE READING

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