Statistics Introduction
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This textbook is meant to introduce statistics to the general audience. It is also meant for the first college course in statistics irrespective of the student’s area of study. The audience is assumed to have no higher mathematics background than college algebra. The authors avoided broad explanations using varieties of examples to keep the length of the textbook short. The instructors may bring in test problems and/or homework assignments from other sources within the scope of study.
Only the materials that can be covered in a semester and that are vital in introducing the concepts of statistics are included. Materials such as Quality Control and Non-parametric Statistics are left out for the subsequent course(s) whenever applicable.
Due to computational advantage, the methods for grouped data have become less important and are not discussed extensively. Partial questions that have little value in the real world are mostly avoided. Complete questions are given to emphasize the concepts. More emphasis is given for the word problems.
The emphasis of this textbook is on concepts of statistics, and hence repetitive numerical and graphical descriptive methods are avoided. When the audience has the knowledge of key vocabularies in statistics and familiarity with the statistical concepts, they will be able to implement other methods without much difficulty.
The solutions of selected exercise problems are given in the Appendix. Students are advised to try the problems themselves before checking out the solutions.
ISBN
9798319705570
Publication Date
2026
Publisher
Kendall Hunt
City
Dubuque, IA
Rights Statement
In Copyright - US https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Keywords
statistics, college, textbook
Disciplines
Applied Statistics
Recommended Citation
Rahman, M., Sanjel, D., Wu, H., Murshed, Md M., and H. Feng. (2026). Statistics introduction. (2nd ed.) Kendall Hunt.
