This book is a revised version in English of a text originally written in Danish for a first course in applied statistics for students of economics, public administration and business administration. A limited knowledge of mathematics is required for understanding the text, except for a single chapter where some knowledge of elementary matrix algebra is necessary. Complicated mathematical …
The discussion of many problems in the social sciences is based on the collection and analysis of data. For example, to investigate how the value of a house depends on such things as the size of the house or the location, the values of these quantities must be measured for a sample of houses. If the problem is to describe the production of electricity at a power plant as a function of the fuel …