Applied Statistics for Economics and Business

Introduction.-1.Collecting Data.- 2.Data presentation:Graphs, Frequency Tables and Histograms.- 3.Measures of Location.- 4.Measuresof Dispersion.- 5.Index Numbers.- 6.Inequality Indices.- 7.Probability Theory.-8.Probability Distributions.- 9.Estimation and Confidence Intervals.- 10.HypothesisTesting.- 11.The 2,F-Distributions and the ANOVA.- 12.Correlation.- 13.Simple Regression. Chapter14.Multiple Regression.- 15.The Analysis of Time Series.- Appendix .

Durmus Özdemir is a professorin economics at Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey. He received his PhD degreein Macroeconomics from University of Leicester, England. He hold a PG degreefrom the University of Glasgow and BSc degree from Hacettepe University. Previously, he had workedfor the University Of Sussex, England, Bilkent University, Ankara and IstabbulBilgi University, Turkey Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Morethan ten years of his academic life is spent in Europe. Durmus is interested inStatistics, Growth, Trade, European Economic Integration, Macroeconomics, CGEand Structural Economic Modelling. He is a research associate at EconomicResearch Forum and an instructor and research fellow for the ECOMOD globaleconomic modelling group where he involved in building several country modelsincluding the model used for the peace dividend for Greece and Turkey. He is editedseveral conference proceedings and published number of papers, books andchapters in edited volumes in his research area. He is currently a Jean MonnetModule Holder on European Political Economy and World Trade Organization (WTO)regional Trade Policy instructor for Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asiaand the Caucasus Countries (CEECA). He is a project Evaluator for TUBITAK. He is also an advisor to the EuropeanParliament on the issues of trade and economic relations between Turkey and theEU.