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This book offers a unique historical perspective, profiling prominent statisticians and historical events in order to motivate learning. To help guide students towards independent learning, exercises and examples using real issues and real data e. The chapters end with detailed reviews of important concepts and formulas, key terms, and definitions that are useful study tools.

Data sets from text and exercise material are available for download in the text website. Unique historical perspective profiling prominent statisticians and historical events to motivate learning by providing interest and context Use of exercises and examples helps guide the student towards indpendent learning using real issues and real data, e. Many current texts in the area are just cookbooks and, as a result, students do not know why they perform the methods they are taught, or why the methods work.

There are numerous quick exercises to give direct feedback to students, and over exercises, half of which have answers, of which half have full solutions. A website gives access to the data files used in the text, and, for instructors, the remaining solutions. The only prerequisite is a first course in calculus. Reid, redefines the way statistics can be taught and learned.

He goes beyond simply presenting techniques by focusing on the key concepts readers need to master in order to ensure their long-term success. Keeping computational challenges to a minimum, Reid shows readers not only how to conduct a variety of commonly used statistical procedures, but also when each procedure should be utilized and how they are related.

Following a review of descriptive statistics, he begins his discussion of inferential statistics with a two-chapter examination of the Chi Square test to introduce students to hypothesis testing, the importance of determining effect size, and the need for post hoc tests.

Exploring challenging topics in an engaging and easy-to-follow manner, Reid builds concepts logically and supports learning through robust pedagogical tools, the use of SPSS, numerous examples, historical quotations, insightful questions, and helpful progress checks.

It covers common statistical tests for continuous, discrete and categorical data, as well as linear regression analysis and topics from survival analysis and Bayesian statistics. Working code and data for Python solutions for each test, together with easy-to-follow Python examples, can be reproduced by the reader and reinforce their immediate understanding of the topic. With recent advances in the Python ecosystem, Python has become a popular language for scientific computing, offering a powerful environment for statistical data analysis and an interesting alternative to R.

The book is intended for master and PhD students, mainly from the life and medical sciences, with a basic knowledge of statistics. It covers all the topics found in introductory descriptive statistics courses, including simple linear regression and time series analysis, the fundamentals of inferential statistics probability theory, random sampling and estimation theory , and inferential statistics itself confidence intervals, testing. Each chapter starts with the necessary theoretical background, which is followed by a variety of examples.

He teaches quantitative finance and semi-parametric statistics. His research focuses on dynamic factor models, multivariate statistics in finance and computational statistics.

He received his PhD in computational statistics from the Catholique Uni. His research focused on multivariate statistics, computational statistics and generalized linear models.

Skip to main content Skip to table of contents. The volume offers particular attention to uncertainty in decision making, design of experiments DOEx and curve fitting, along with special topics such as statistical process control SPC , assessment of binary measurement systems, and new results on sample size selection in metrology studies.

The methodologies presented are supported with R script when appropriate, and the code has been made available for readers to use in their own applications.

Designed to promote collaboration between statistics and metrology, this book will be of use to practitioners of metrology as well as students and researchers in statistics and engineering disciplines. Front Matter Pages i-xiii.

Front Matter Pages Introduction and Framework. Christian Heumann, Michael Schomaker, Shalabh. Pages Frequency Measures and Graphical Representation of Data. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion. Association of Two Variables.