Table of Contents

Part 1 - Basic knowledge and tools to apply statistics.- Statistics is fun.- Excel: A brief introduction and the statistical possibilities.- Part 2 - Describe, nothing but describe.- Mean values: How people and objects behave on average.- Scatter: The deviation from average behavior.- Graphs: The possibility to represent data visually.- Correlation: Of the correlation.- Ratio and index numbers: The chance to generate new things from old knowledge.- Part 3 - From Few to All.- Of Data and the Truth.- Hypotheses: Just a specification of the question.- Normal distribution and other test distributions.- Hypothesis testing: What is Valid?.- Part 4 - Procedures for Testing Hypotheses.- The Mean Test.- The Test for Difference of Means in Independent Samples.- The Test for Difference of Means in Dependent Samples.- The Analysis of Variance for Testing for Group Differences in More than Two Groups.- The Test for Correlation in Metric, Ordinal, and Nominal Data.- Further Test Procedures for Nominal Variables.- Summary Part IV - Overview of testing procedures.- Part 5 - Regression analysis.- The linear single regression.- The multiple regression analysis.- Part 6 - What's next.- Brief report on a research question.- Further statistical procedures.- Interesting and further statistics books.- Another data set to practice on - Intern of a company.- Appendix.

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Franz Kronthaler is professor of economics and statistics at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden FHGR. He has been working as an empirical economic researcher for more than 20 years, has conducted numerous research projects and published papers. For many years, he has been teaching students of various disciplines in applied statistics and the advanced methods of data analysis at Bachelor and Master level.