School of Mathematics and Statistics - Theses

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    Adolescent perceptions of the concept of randomness
    Toohey, Phillip Gerard ( 1994)
    An investigation into adolescents perceptions of concepts of randomness, with a questionnaire trialled on 75 adolescent boys between Year 7 and Year 11 in Catholic schools in Melbourne, Australia.
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    Distribution-free inference about quantiles
    Snow, J. W. ( 1972)
    This thesis is concerned with the problem of drawing inferences about populations when little or nothing is known about the form of the underlying distribution. Chapter 1 reviews the general problems, but the thesis as a whole is more concerned with problems of estimation than with tests of hypotheses.