A First Course in Statistics
2nd Edition
Published in May 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-873981-14-6 (ISBN)
Description
Intended for students on BTEC business and secretarial studies, RSA, LCCI, AAT Certificate, BA Public Administration and Institute of Export courses this book provides a core text for introdcutory level courses in statistics. It assumes the student has no prior knowledge of statistics. The second edition includes a section on elementary inferential statistics and has extended end of unit exercises. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 190 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-873981-14-6 (9781873981146)
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Content
Part 1 This is statistics: fundamental ideas; asking the question; collecting the data; deriving the statistics; communicating the results. Part 2 Asking the questions: questions and statistics; who asks the questions; how to ask questions; how not to ask questions; questionnaire design; when to ask questions. Part 3 Collection of data: primary data; probability and sampling; organizing the data; tabulation of data; secondary data; graphical representation of data. Part 4 Deriving the statistics: single statistics; dispersion; multiple statistics; index numbers; regression; correlation; time series. Part 5 Communicating the results: the general principles of presentation; demonstration tables; pictorial representation; the use of the words. Part 6 Inferential statistics: sets and random experiments; probabilities and combinatorics; probability distributions; hypothesis testing; statistical tables; answers to exercises.