Preface
This text has been developed as both a text for university courses and for use by financial analysts and researchers. As a textbook, it is for a second course in statistics, specializing in the direction of financial investments analysis.
Readers wanting a review of basic statistics could read any one of a number of books but one that packs a lot of information into a short space is David Hand’s very short introduction (2008). Among basic business statistics books that we have used with success in our department are those by Moore, McCabe, Craig, Alwan, and Duckworth (2011); McClave, Benson, and Sincich (2010); or Levine, Stephan, Krehbiel, and Berenson (2011). These books are listed at the end of this preface. An excellent book that ...
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