Summary
Contents
This book offers an overview of the central ideas in calculus and gives examples of how calculus is used to translate many real-world phenomena into mathematical functions. Beginning with an explanation of the two major parts of calculus – differentiation and integration – Gudmund R. Iversen illustrates how calculus is used in statistics: to distinguish between the mean and the median; to derive the least squares formulas for regression co-efficients; to find values of parameters from theoretical distributions; and to find a statistical p-value when using one of the continuous test variables such as the t-variable.
Introduction
Introduction
Calculus has been one of the major branches of mathematics for more than 300 years. The foundations of calculus trace back to work done during the second half of the 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, independently of each other. In turn, they built on work done by ...