Michael Schomaker

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.

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.

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.

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.

Das Fach Statistik gehört in vielen Fachrichtungen zum Grundstudium. Wegen des teilweise abstrakten und mathematisch begründeten Vorgehens haben Studenten häufig Probleme im Verständnis der statistischen Methoden. Das Arbeitsbuch ist eine Ergänzung zu den beiden Lehrbüchern von Helge Toutenburg Deskriptive Statistik und Induktive Statistik, deren voller Stoffumfang klausurrelevant für Haupt- und Nebenfachstudenten an deutschsprachigen Universitäten ist. Es ist eine effektive Lernhilfe für die Vorlesungen Statistik I und II. Jedes Kapitel des Arbeitsbuches besteht aus einem anschaulich geschriebenen, überschaubaren Lehrteil, der den Studenten die wichtigsten Zusammenhänge anhand klar strukturierter Beispiele näher bringt, sowie einem ausführlichen und gut kommentierten Aufgabenteil. Das didaktische Anliegen des Buches wird durch eine Vielzahl neuer und origineller Beispiele unterstützt. Datensätze im Internet können zusätzlich zur Übung allgemein und zu speziellen Aufgaben mit SPSS genutzt werden.