Economic Statistics

Author: Song Xianhua
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The book "Economic Statistics" was compiled by the author based on long-term teaching experience, reference to outstanding domestic and international textbooks in the same field, and the characteristics of various economic management majors in financial and economic colleges. It can serve as a public course textbook for undergraduate majors in economics and management at universities, as well as for other individuals who have mastered statistical tools. The book takes "easy to understand and use" as its starting point and goal, hoping that through studying this book, readers can develop a statistical awareness, deeply grasp statistical thinking, accurately understand the basic assumptions, application conditions, and statistical rules of various statistical methods, and correctly interpret statistical results. It does not advocate spending excessive effort on the profound mathematical background of statistical methods and complex statistical calculations, but attempts to complete this task with the help of computer information processing technology. The content system of this textbook includes four parts: Part 1 is Descriptive Statistics—collection of statistical data, data organization and display, and data distribution characteristics; Part 2 is Inferential Statistics—sampling inference (parameter estimation, hypothesis testing), analysis of variance; Part 3 is commonly used statistical analysis methods in economic statistics—correlation and regression analysis, time series analysis, index analysis, comprehensive evaluation; Part 4 is applied economic statistics—overview of national economic statistics.