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.

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.

Six Sigma ist eine wissenschaftliche Managementmethode, die zum Ziel hat, Kundenbed rfnisse vollst ndig und profitabel zu erf llen. In jeder Phase eines Six-Sigma-Projektes werden statistische Methoden angewendet, um faktenbasierte Entscheidungen treffen zu k nnen. Das Buch mit den Schwerpunkten DMAIC (Six-Sigma-Methode zur Verbesserung von Prozessen) und Statistik vereint praxisnahes Expertenwissen aus Anwendung, Consulting und Wissenschaft. Es richtet sich an alle, die Six Sigma einsetzen oder in Lehrveranstaltungen behandeln wollen.

Das Fach Statistik ist in vielen Studiengangen Teil des Grundstudiums. Wegen des mathematisch begrundeten Vorgehens haben Studenten haufig Verstandnisprobleme. Das Arbeitsbuch ist eine effektive Lernhilfe fur die Vorlesungen Statistik I und II und erganzt die zwei Lehrbucher Deskriptive Statistik und Induktive Statistik. Jedes Kapitel besteht aus einem Lehrteil, der die wichtigsten Zusammenhange anhand klar strukturierter Beispiele erlautert, sowie einem kommentierten Aufgabenteil. Datensatze fur zusatzliche Ubungen mit SPSS als Download erhaltlich."

Statistische Verfahren werden sowohl in der Wirtschaft als auch in den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften eingesetzt. Die Statistik gilt trotzdem als schwierig. Um diese Hemmschwelle zu uberwinden, geben die Autoren eine didaktisch ausgefeilte, anwendungsbezogene Einfuhrung in die Methoden der deskriptiven Statistik und Datenanalyse. Anhand praxisnaher Beispiele werden die Ideen des Datenmanagements und der Datenauswertung unter Einsatz von SPSS und R beschrieben. Viele Ubungsaufgaben (mit Losungen) unterstutzen das (Selbst-) Studium der Leser. Das Buch deckt den Stoff Statistik I an deutschsprachigen Universitaten vollstandig ab. Neu in dieser Auflage ist eine Einfuhrung in die logistische Regression, deren Konzept auch anhand der statistischen Software SPSS und R erlautert wird. Des Weiteren wurden viele Beispiele und Ubungsaufgaben thematisch uberarbeitet."

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.