Introductory Statistics for Business and Economics

Jan Ubøe is a Professor of Mathematics at the Norwegian School of Economics. He has published research in several different areas of mathematics and economics: theory on stochastic differential equations, option pricing theory, regional science, transportation science and management science. His contributions have also been recognized with several awards for excellence in teaching.

“This textbook is an introductory one which is intended first of all for researchers, analysts and practitioners in finance and economics which are not going to become professional statisticians. … the author introduces the readers to the complex technology through many examples and exercises which are simple and explicit at the beginning and grow up to nontrivial problems of economic practice.” (Vladimir Gorbunov, zbMATH 1407.62008, 2019)

• Introduction.- Descriptive statistics.- Probability.- Combinatorics.- Conditional probability.- Random variables, mean and variance.- Joint distributions.- Basic probability distributions.- Estimation.- Hypothesis testing.- Commonly used tests.- Linear regression.- Solutions.