Table of Contents

Part 1: Descriptive Measures and Probability 1. What is statistics? 2. Graphical descriptive methods 3. Art and science of graphical presentations 4. Numerical descriptive measures 5. Probability 6. Data collection and sampling 7. Random variables and discrete probability distributions 8. Continuous probability distributions Part 2: Statistical Inference 9. Statistical inference: An Introduction 10. Sampling distributions 11. Estimation: Describing a single population 12. Estimation: Comparing two populations 13. Hypothesis testing: Describing a single population 14. Hypothesis testing: Comparing two populations 15. Inference about population variances 16. Comparing two populations: Nonparametric statistics 17. Statistical inference: A review of Chapters 11-16 18. Analysis of variance 19. Nonparametric techniques: Comparing two or more populations 20. Additional Tests for nominal data: Chi-squared tests 21. Simple linear regression and correlation 22. Multiple regression 23. Model building 24. Statistical inference: Conclusion Part 3 - Applications Chapter 25 Time-series analysis and forecasting Chapter 26 Index numbers Chapter 27 Decision analysis

About the Author

Selva is Professor in Econometrics and Applied Statistics in the Griffith Business School and Director of BIntBus Program at Griffith University. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics, Anna University, Chennai, India. Selva has also taught previously at the University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Murdoch University (Australia) and The University of Western Australia (Australia) and University of Queensland (Australia). He has held positions such as the Deputy Dean (Staffing), Faculty of International Business, and Deputy Director of the Statistics and Research Design (STARDS) Unit at Griffith University. Selva was educated at the University of Jaffna, University of Bucurest (Romania), The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University (Australia). He is the recipient of several individual and group Excellence in Teaching Awards and has received numerous of competitive teaching and research grants. Selva has published six research monographs and has published widely in international refereed journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Economics Studies and Marketing Science, and several book chapters.
Currently Selva coordinates the OUA Business Statistics units, which are administered by Griffith Uni. Saroja is Professor in Econometrics in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, a Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics, Anna University, Chennai, India, and Research Higher Degrees Convenor, Economics and Business Statistics, at Griffith University. She has also held positions such as Deputy Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration, the Director of the Statistics and Research Design (STARDS) Unit and the Head of the Economics and Business Statistics Discipline at Griffith University. She has also taught previously at the University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Murdoch University (Australia) and The University of Western Australia. Saroja was educated at the University of Jaffna, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, and has published several research monographs and research papers in international refereed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Transportation Research and Economics Letters, and book chapters. Saroja was the recipient of a 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award for innovation across the institution for teaching statistics to postgraduate students.