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- Teaches all the basic statistical concepts with a minimum of fuss
- Includes applications of clear relevance to business and economics
- Enhances students’ understanding by focusing on non-trivial problems
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This textbook discusses central statistical concepts and their use in business and economics. To endure the hardship of abstract statistical thinking, business and economics students need to see interesting applications at an early stage. Accordingly, the book predominantly focuses on exercises, several of which draw on simple applications of non-linear theory. The main body presents central ideas in a simple, straightforward manner; the exposition is concise, without sacrificing rigor.
The book bridges the gap between theory and applications, with most exercises formulated in an economic context. Its simplicity of style makes the book suitable for students at any level, and every chapter starts out with simple problems. Several exercises, however, are more challenging, as they are devoted to the discussion of non-trivial economic problems where statistics plays a central part.
Keywords
- Probability theory
- Statistical thinking
- Statistics exercises
- Statistics for Business
- Statistics for Economics
- Inference
- Applications of statistics to business and economics
- Applications to finance
- Descriptive statistics
- Random variables
- Probability distributions
- Estimation
- Hypothesis testing
- Regression
- Combinatorics
- Mean and variance
- Option pricing
- Conditional probabilities
- Excel for statistics
- Expectation
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
Jan Ubøe
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introductory Statistics for Business and Economics
Book Subtitle: Theory, Exercises and Solutions
Authors: Jan Ubøe
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70936-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70935-2Published: 19 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89016-6Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70936-9Published: 30 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 466
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original Norwegian edition published by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, Oslo, 2010
Topics: Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance, Business Mathematics, Econometrics, Market Research/Competitive Intelligence