Statistical Analysis with Software Applications
This learning material covers fundamental concepts, principles, and techniques in statistics useful for various fields (e.g., business and management, humanities, social sciences, health, and engineering), research, and other practical applications. Its main learning objective is to develop students’ skills in statistics by demonstrating their ability to perform data management and analysis relevant to personal and professional decision-making and research. Through this textbook, students will learn and apply statistical concepts and tools to data obtained from various sources, which will allow them to formulate assumptions and hypotheses and then critically test them. Moreover, this textbook will cover statistical approaches to meet empirical questions that will foster scientific perspective and incite critical thinking. It will also utilize Microsoft Excel to help students analyze data. After rigorously working through this textbook, students are expected to: (1) reason and recognize patterns; (2) create, read, and interpret statistical visuals and tables; (3) collect, organize, and represent data; and recognize, describe, and justify their relationships; (4) understand and use basic measures of central tendency and language of probability; (5) compute probabilities using the basic rules of probability and understand their significance in the real world; (6) demonstrate problem-solving by implementing statistical techniques and acquire, organize, and synthesize information and creatively use them; and (7) understand and appreciate the significance of statistics and its applicability to their chosen fields.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN PAOLO R. RIVERA, PHD
He is an economist with an extensive research portfolio in the areas of tourism development, poverty, remittances and migration, entrepreneurship, international trade, and development economics. This includes his attendance at a succession of both international and local academic conferences and authorship of numerous scientific and technical publications. He is also an educator who handles courses on basic, intermediate, and advanced economics; statistics and econometrics; management science; research methods; and strategic, financial, investment, and portfolio management at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. Dr. Rivera is also a subject matter expert engaged in various research and management consultancy services with the private and public sectors. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Master of Science in Economics, and Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics (magna cum laude) from De La Salle University School of Economics.
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