This is the first book of two volumes covering the basics of statistical methods and analysis. Significant topics include concepts of research and data analysis, descriptive statistics, probability and distributions, correlation and regression, and statistical inference. The book includes useful examples and exercises as well as relevant case studies for proper implementation of the discussed tools. This book will be a valuable text for undergraduate students of statistics, management, economics, and psychology, wanting to gain basic understanding of statistics and the usage of its various concepts.



About the Author
SAHANA PRASAD is former Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Christ University, Bangalore, India. She holds a Ph.D. degree in applying operations from Christ University, Bangalore, India. She has taught various topics in statistics, operations research, quantitative techniques, and data science to students of courses like chartered accountancy, company secretaryship, commerce, economics, management, among others. She also has been a resource person for many training programs and given guest/keynote lectures at several conferences and seminars. She has conducted workshops in SPSS, R, and EXCEL and has a working knowledge of MATLAB, LINGO, TABLEAU, and PYTHON. An awardee of the Statistical Capacity Building award by the World Bank, Dr. Prasad was featured in Asia Research news for her work in statistics. She has around 20 research publications to her name and around 350 articles/short stories published in various newspapers and magazines.


Book Information
ISBN 9789811905957
Author Sahana Prasad
Format Hardback
Page Count 299
Imprint Springer Verlag, Singapore
Publisher Springer Verlag, Singapore