An Introduction to Statistics
An Introduction to Statistics
About the Book
Learn the essential statistics skills you need for your business degree with this clear, engaging, and comprehensive textbook. Designed for first-year students with no prior knowledge, this book guides readers through the fundamental concepts and calculations of descriptive statistics and classical probability, before moving into discrete and continuous probability distributions and inferential statistics. Packed with examples and worked solutions, the book also offers unique insights into advanced topics like the derivation of the Poisson distribution from the binomial and a least-squares derivation of the regression line formulae - knowledge rarely found in other introductory texts. Don't fear the formulas! The appendices provide full statistical tables and handy guides to navigating stats mode on the popular ranges of Casio scientific calculators permitted in university maths exams, ensuring you have all the resources you need to succeed. Empower your academic success and gain a valuable edge in your business studies - pick up your copy today!
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Table of Contents
- 1.1 A very brief introduction
- 1.2 Why study statistics?
- 1.3 What is statistics? What are statistics?
- 1.4 Sample and population
- 1.5 Data types and Levels of Measurement 14
- 1.6 The Levels of Measurement 15
- 1.7 Chapter 1 questions
- 2.1 Organising data
- 2.2 Building a frequency distribution
- 2.3 Adjusting classes to close gaps
- 2.4 Plotting the histogram
- 2.5 Plotting a cumulative frequency graph
- 2.6 The Box and Whisker plot
- 2.7 Stem & Leaf diagram
- 2.8 Chapter 2 questions
- 2.9 Chapter 2 tutorial questions
- 3 Measures of location and spread
- 3.1 Measures of data centre
- 3.2 Measures of spread
- 3.2.1 Variance & Standard Deviation
- 3.2.2 Inter Quartile Range (IQR)
- 3.3 Standard Deviation in context
- 3.3.1 The Empirical Law
- 3.3.2 Chebychev’s Inequality
- 3.3.3 Z scores
- 3.3.4 Detecting outliers
- 3.4 Measures of skew
- 3.4.1 Pearson’s coefficient of skew
- 3.4.2 Software coefficient of skew
- 3.5 Chapter 3 questions
- 3.6 Chapter 3 tutorial questions
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Ways to assign probability
- 4.2.1 Classical probabilities
- 4.2.2 Empirical probability
- 4.2.3 Subjective probability
- 4.3 Rules of addition: OR
- 4.3.1 Mutual exclusivity: The special rule of addition
- 4.3.2 Compliment rule
- 4.3.3 Not mutually exclusive: The general rule of addition
- 4.4 Rules of multiplication: AND
- 4.4.1 Independence: The special rule of multiplication
- 4.4.2 Not independent: The general rule of multiplication
- 4.5 Conditional probability
- 4.5.1 General rule for conditional probability
- 4.6 Tree diagrams
- 4.7 Chapter 4 questions
- 4.8 Chapter 4 tutorial questions
- 5.1 General DRV
- 5.2 Specific DRV’s namely: Binomial & Poisson
- 5.2.1 The binomially distributed DRV
- 5.2.2 The Poisson distributed DRV
- 5.2.3 The Poisson probability formula
- 5.3 Chapter 5 questions
- 5.4 Chapter 5 tutorial questions
- 6.1 What is the Normal Distribution?
- 6.2 The Normal Probability Density Function
- 6.3 Calculating normal probabilities
- 6.3.1 Calculating probabilities for given data values
- 6.3.2 Reverse-Lookup: Finding a data value for a given probability
- 6.4 The Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
- 6.4.1 What is a sampling distribution?
- 6.5 Calculating probability for sample means and proportions
- 6.6 Chapter 6 questions
- 6.7 Chapter 6 tutorial questions
- 7.1 Sampling distribution
- 7.1.1 Student’s t-distribution
- 7.1.2 Sampling distributions and hypothesis testing
- 7.2 Sampling methods
- 7.2.1 Probabilistic sampling methods
- 7.2.2 Comments
- 7.2.3 Sampling errors
- 7.3 Chapter 7: CLT probability questions
- 7.4 Chapter 7: Basic sampling method questions
- 8.1 Diagrammatic explanation of confidence intervals
- 8.1.1 Using z or t distributions for estimating the mean
- 8.1.2 Degrees of freedom
- 8.2 Formulae for confidence intervals to estimate mean
- 8.3 Formulae for confidence intervals to estimate proportion
- 8.4 Finding the sample size to control the width of the CI
- 8.5 Chapter 8 questions
- 8.6 Chapter 8 tutorial questions
- 9.1 The types of hypotheses
- 9.2 Explaining hypothesis testing for the mean
- 9.3 Hypothesis testing steps
- 9.4 Hypotheses tests for means using the t-distribution
- 9.5 Hypothesis tests for proportions
- 9.6 Type I and II errors
- 9.6.1 Type I and II examples
- 9.7 Chapter 9 questions
- 9.8 Chapter 9 tutorial questions
- 10.1 Testing a difference between two means from independent samples
- 10.1.1 Conditions for using the t-distribution
- 10.2 Testing for differences in proportions from independent samples
- 10.3 Paired t-test for dependent samples
- 10.4 Chapter 10 questions
- 10.5 Chapter 10 tutorial questions
- 11.1 Goodness of fit tests
- 11.2 Testing for independence
- 11.3 Comments on Chi-squared tests
- 11.4 Chapter 11 questions
- 11.5 Chapter 11 tutorial questions
- 12.1 F-Test for equality of variance
- 12.2 ANOVA: Single factor Analysis of variance
- 12.3 The ANOVA calculations
- 12.3.1 Putting it all together: The hypothesis test procedure
- 12.3.2 Which group means are significantly different?
- 12.4 The assumptions behind ANOVA
- 12.5 Chapter 12 questions
- 12.6 Chapter 12 tutorial questions
- 13.1 Simple linear regression & correlation
- 13.2 Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PMCC)
- 13.3 Observing correlation
- 13.4 Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient SRCC
- 13.5 Testing the significance of the correlation coefficients
- 13.6 The Least Squares Regression line
- 13.7 Deriving the formulae for slope and intercept
- 13.8 Chapter 13 questions
- 13.9 Chapter 13 tutorial questions
- 14.1 Normal distribution tables
- 14.2 Students’ t-distribution
- 14.3 Fishers F-distribution
- 14.4 Chi-Squared percentage points
- 14.5 Random number tables
- 14.6 Critical values for correlation
- 15.1 A Brief guide to Stats Mode on Casio fx83GT and fx85GT
- 15.2 A Brief guide to Stats Mode on Casio fx83GTX and fx85GTX
- 15.3 A Brief guide to Stats Mode on Casio fx83GT CW and fx85GT CW
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Presenting data
4 Classical probability
5 DRV: Discrete random variables
6 The Normal Distribution
7 In Brief: Sampling distributions and sampling methods
8 Parameter estimation: Confidence intervals for means and proportions
9 Hypothesis testing: Single sample tests for means and proportions
10 Two sample hypothesis tests for means and proportions
11 Chi-Squared tests
12 F-Tests & ANOVA: Single Factor Analysis of variance
13 Correlation and linear regression
14 Appendix A: Tables
15 Appendix B: Stats mode on the Casio fx83-85 calculators
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