General Statistics

The present book is a statistic course for undergraduate students in all fields of social and economic sciences. The book presents a manual on a course "General Theory of Statistics", including a series of not quite traditional topics. Above all, it concerns the mathematical bases of statistics and use of computer technologies in statistic probing. At that, thematic choice of the chapters and sections of the book is caused not only by interests and tastes of the authors, but also by modern tendencies in applied statistics and orientation of the given work. The book contains a series of concrete proposals for improvement of statistic practice; many of them are based on our experience in practical statistical activity in statistical organs of USSR and Estonia in the early nineties of the last century. A comparability aspect of the Soviet statistic school inheriting many traditions of the worldwide known Russian school of the probability theory and statistics, with western statistics can be a rather interesting to the English–speaking reader in historical and substantial respect.This book has been written for a large enough audience of statisticians, researchers, teachers, students, collegians and users of statistics in behavioral and social sciences. Above all, the book is directed to a rather wide circle of the readers studying statistic disciplines in high schools and colleges; however, it can be useful also to persons who independently study statistics. Material of the present book is based on three our Russian books whose pressrun was completely sold out. These books have been written on the basis of a series of coursesgiven on general theory of statistics, probability theory and mathematical statistics for undergraduate students of Universities of Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Baltic countries, which specialize in the field of economic and social sciences. The book contains vast English and Russian literature on various aspects of statistics. Read more