Original Product Statistics Economists

This first course in statistics is designed undergraduate students. There are dozens of statistics textbooks in the market. But most of these textbooks are either pitched at a level that is too high or too low most undergraduate students. Ma use calculus and are designed graduate students in technical fields. Others provide black box mulas without a derivations. This textbook focuses on deriving everything from first principles without using calculus or linear algebra. It is important students to understand why they are doing what they are doing. Otherwise students cannot distinguish meaningless results from significant results. This textbook gets to the major points quickly and is thus relatively short and very accessible.

Contents:

Preface

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Why Statistics

Descriptive Statistics

Probability

Probability Distributions

Special Probability Distributions

Statistical Inference: Sampling and Sampling Distributions

Confidence Intervals

Hypothesis Testing

Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples

Simple Regression

Multiple Regression

Interpreting Regression Results

Appendix