New Electronic Book on Statistics

Interactive Course of General Theory of Statistics

by V.Z. Aladjev

International Academy of Noosphere

The Baltic Branch

Interactive Course of General Theory of Statistics (STATBOOK) is an HTML-based course for undergraduate students in all fields of social and economic sciences. The present book is the textbook at the course "General Theory of Statistics", including a number of untraditional for it topics. First of all, it concerns to mathematical bases of statistics and use of computer technologies in statistical researches. The thematic choice of the chapters and sections of the book is caused not only interests and tastes of the writer, and also modern tendencies in applied statistics and orientation of the given work.

To some detailed elaboration are considered basic topics of the general theory of statistics such as: a subject and method of statistics; elements of the theory of probability; bases of statistical observation; the report, grouping and representation of the statistical data; absolute and relative quantities; bases of a method average; elements of the analysis of variational and dynamic series; elements of an index method and computer means of the statistical analysis of the data. The book contains a number of concrete proposals for improving statistical practice.

This book is written for a large audience of researchers, statisticians, students, collegians and users of statistics in behavioral and social sciences. Above all, the book is directed to a wide circle of the readers studying statistical disciplines in high schools and colleges, however it can be useful also to persons independently studying statistics.

The presence in the book of a number of untraditional themes makes by its useful manual for all those who by and large adjoins in the activity to the statistical analysis of the data of various character. For an illustration of the basic positions and procedures of a statistical analysis those or other statistical data representing abstract or concrete populations or samples from them are used. In our case as an input data for illustrative examples of the considered material the cumstat reflecting a creative activity of the Tallinn Research Group (TRG) in the Cellular Automata Theory and their applications is elected. The examples, considered in the present book concerning a development of such area of modern cybernetics as the Cellular Automata Theory (Homogeneous Structures in Russian terminology), make clear in the defined extent some of these problems.

The novel features of this interactive course are numerous examples of the statistical procedures, realized in the environment of the well-known mathematical package Maple V. The source texts of the given procedures are enclosed with the body text of the book, what allows to use them directly in an environment of the package with the concrete data of the reader. The basic information on the package, presented in the last chapter of the book, is quite sufficient for the beginning its usages. In addition, collection of worksheets with frequent statistical procedures for package Maple of releases 5 and 6 is presented.

The material of the present book is based on three our Russian books, written by results of a number of courses of lectures on the General Theory of Statistics, Theory of Probabilities and Mathematical Statistics for the undergraduate students of high schools of Byelorussia and Baltic countries, which specialize in the field of economical and social sciences (jurisprudence, International law, sociology, psychology, economics, accounting and so on). The book contains an extensive Russian and English bibliography.

Audience: The STATBOOK can be recommended for a graduate level course, and will be of interest to graduate students and researchers whose work involves statistical methodology, above all in economics, social sciences, psychology, jurisprudence, accounting, and so on.

Contents: Preface. 1. A subject and method of a statistical science. 2. Elements of the probability theory. 3. Fundamentals of statistical observation. 4. The consolidated return, the grouping and presentation of statistical data. 5. Absolute and relative statistical quantities. 6. Basis of the averages method. 7. Elements of the analysis of variational series. 8. Elements of the analysis of time series. 9. Elements of the index method of the analysis. 10. Computer means of the statistical analysis. References.

 

Key Features:

â–  Desktop access to basic concepts of the General Theory of Statistics

â–  Advanced search capabilities within the framework of the HTML-technology

â–  Fully hyperlinked

â–  Text and formulas dinamically displayed with scalable fonts

â–  Selective printing and export

â–  Possibility to export source code for formulas and pictures directly

â–  Set of useful statistical procedures for the Maple-platform

â–  Review of statistical software

â–  Description of statistical facilities of the Maple-package

 

The STATBOOK is available in two versions:

â—„ Two-diskette Network Version for Windows platform which allows librarians to make the STATBOOK available for simultaneous use by more than one individual; 2000, 500 USD

â—„ Two-diskette Stand Alone Version for Windows platform which allows the reader to install the STATBOOK on a single PC with Windows platform; 2000, ISBN 9985-60-866-6, 50 USD

 

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