Название: Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis: With Exercises, Solutions and Applications in R, 2nd Edition
Автор: Christian Heumann, Michael Schomaker
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2022
Страниц: 584
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 52.6 MB

Now in its second edition, 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. This revised and extended edition features new chapters on logistic regression, simple random sampling, including bootstrapping, and causal inference.

The text is primarily intended for undergraduate students in disciplines such as business administration, the social sciences, medicine, politics, and macroeconomics. 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 the methods to their own applications.

The success of the open-source statistical software “R” has made a significant impact on the teaching and research of statistics in the last decade. Analyzing data is now easier and more affordable than ever, but choosing the most appropriate statistical methods remains a challenge for many users. To understand and interpret software output, it is necessary to engage with the fundamentals of statistics. However, many readers do not feel comfortable with complicated mathematics. In this book, we attempt to find a healthy balance between explaining statistical concepts comprehensively and showing their application and interpretation using R.

This book will benefit beginners and self-learners from various backgrounds as we complement each chapter with various exercises and detailed and comprehensible solutions. The results involving mathematics and rigorous proofs are separated from the main text, where possible, and are kept in an appendix for interested readers. Our textbook covers material that is generally taught in introductory level statistics courses to students from various backgrounds, including sociology, biology, economics, psychology, medicine, and others. Most often we introduce the statistical concepts using examples and illustrate the calculations both manually and using R.