Descriptive statistics. An introduction into Windows using SPSS with problems and solutions

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From methodological point of view, the statistics science is divided into descriptive statistics and inductive statistics. The aim of descriptive statistics is the processing and the graphical representation of the data set concentrations of measure numbers and plots. By difference, the inductive statistics is intended to prepare the necessary methods for the statistical reliability of models and for hypothesis testing. The present book is devoted to descriptive statistics and has three main goals: (1) to represent the material for the author's course in statistics (I), (2) to support the models of descriptive statistics by their implementation within a standard software such as SPSS, and (3) to provide a valuable learning and exercising material by including illustrative training problems together with their solutions. The book is made up of seven chapters, each one ending with useful proposed problems and control questions on the chapter contents. The titles of the chapters are as follows: Chapter 1: Basics; Ch. 2: Frequency distributions; Ch. 3: Measure numbers for unidimensional characteristics; Ch. 4: Measure numbers for the relations between two characteristics; Ch. 5: Two-dimensional quantitative characteristics: linear regression; Ch. 6: Time series; Ch. 7: Proportional numbers and indices. A special substantial part of the book encloses the (SPSS computational) analyses and solutions to the proposed exercises within the whole book. To mention, finally, the title of the companion book to the present one, see the author's ``Induktive Statistik. Eine Einführung mit SPSS für Windows. (2000; Zbl 0934.62004).





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