Foundations of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
by Henk van Elst
Publisher: arXiv 2013
Number of pages: 144
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These lecture notes were written with the aim to provide an accessible though technically solid introduction to the logic of systematical analyses of statistical data to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Social Sciences and Economics in particular.
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