Statistics for Bachelor and Master students. An introduction for economists and social scientists (Q2518251)

The authors present a textbook in elementary statistics for students applying for a bachelor or a master degree at German universities. Although the book is written mainly for students in the field of economics or business economics, the book may also be used for other academic disciplines as well. The authors suggest 45 hours of lectures and the same time for exercises to impart the material to the students. In addition, the authors suggest a 30 hours course based on PC exercises written in the program language R. To go along this line, the authors prepare a German written book containing various exercises and an introduction into the R language. The content of the book covers topics such as discrete distributions, the normal distribution, estimates of parameters of distributions and testing of hypotheses as well as tests of independency and tests of conformity of empirical distributions to theoretical ones. Further topics of the book are an introduction into the linear regression model using one independent variable and into the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The final chapter is devoted to time series analysis as well as to a brief introduction into statistical index theory, distinguishing price indices and quantity indices. The authors largely abstain from rigorous formal proofs of statistical statements and present many practical examples and applications instead. Therefore, the textbook can be used by everyone even without deep knowledge in formal methods.