While there are numerous texts on the market with the same goal, this text takes a practical and effective approach to engaging students with a topic that, as the author notes, they are most likely not that interested in learning. The text accomplishes this goal quite well. ... It is written in a very straightforward and understandable manner that fits its intended audience quite well. ... Given that there are dozens of introductory statistics texts on the market. it has become exceedingly difficult to create one that can be truly differentiated from the rest. However, in this case, the author app. Read more...
Abstract:
Encourages development of application and decision making skills for use in managing raw data and real-world projects. This book includes such topics as scattergrams and time series graphs, simple and multiple regressions, time series analysis, and random sampling. Read more...
Author(s): Leekley, Robert M
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 498
City: Hoboken
Tags: Финансово-экономические дисциплины;Статистический анализ экономических данных;
Content: Front cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author
Chapter 1. Introduction toStatistics
Chapter 2. Describing Data: Tables and Graphs
Chapter 3. Describing Data: Summary Statistics
Chapter 4. Basic Probability
Chapter 5. Probability Distributions
Chapter 6. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7. Estimation and Confidence Intervals
Chapter 8. Tests of Hypotheses: One-Sample Tests
Chapter 9. Tests of Hypotheses: Two-Sample Tests
Chapter 10. Tests of Hypotheses: Contingency and Goodness-of-Fit
Chapter 11. Tests of Hypotheses: ANOVA and Tests of Variances Chapter 12. Simple Regression and CorrelationChapter 13. Multiple Regression
Chapter 14. Time-Series Analysis
Appendix A
Appendix B: Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises
Appendix C
Index
Back cover
