Overview
- Introduces undergraduate students to quantitative data analysis and statistics
- Includes a wealth of examples, exercises and solutions
- Features working computer code in the statistical software R
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This introductory statistics textbook conveys the essential concepts and tools needed to develop and nurture statistical thinking. It presents descriptive, inductive and explorative statistical methods and guides the reader through the process of quantitative data analysis. In the experimental sciences and interdisciplinary research, data analysis has become an integral part of any scientific study. Issues such as judging the credibility of data, analyzing the data, evaluating the reliability of the obtained results and finally drawing the correct and appropriate conclusions from the results are vital.
The text is primarily intended for undergraduate students in disciplines like business administration, the social sciences, medicine, politics, macroeconomics, etc. It features a wealth of examples, exercises and solutions with computer code in the statistical programming language R as well as supplementary material that will enable the reader to quickly adapt all methods to their own applications.
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Keywords
- descriptive statistical methods
- inductive statistical methods
- quantitative data analysis
- statistical software R
- introduction to statistics
- explorative statistical methods
- applications of statistical methods
- probability distributions
- statistical inference
- hypotheses testing
- linear regression
- random variables
- graphical representation of data
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Descriptive Statistics
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Front Matter
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Probability Calculus
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Front Matter
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Inductive Statistics
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Christian Heumann is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität Munich, where he teaches students in Bachelor and Master programs offered by the Department of Statistics, as well as undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Science programs in business administration and economics. His research interests include statistical modeling, computational statistics and all aspects of missing data.
Dr. Michael Schomaker is a Senior Researcher and Biostatistician at the Centre For Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Research (CIDER), University of Cape Town, South Africa. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Munich. He has taught undergraduate students from the business and medical sciences for many years and has written contributions for various introductory textbooks. His research chiefly focuses on missing data, causal inference, model averaging and HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Shalabh is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Lucknow (India) and completed his post-doctoral work at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and University of Munich (Germany). He has over twenty years experience in teaching and research. His main research areas are linear models, regression analysis, econometrics, error-measurement models, missing data models and sampling theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
Book Subtitle: With Exercises, Solutions and Applications in R
Authors: Christian Heumann, Michael Schomaker, Shalabh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46162-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83456-6Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46162-5Published: 26 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 456
Number of Illustrations: 89 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance, Econometrics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics