Andy Field has written an up-to-date student-oriented textbook with the aim of making the learning of advanced statistics and using SPSS as painless as possible. <P>While other books either concentrate on statistical theory or on the functions of the popular computer program SPSS, Andy Field...</p>

Quantitative decision making¿an overview -- Arranging data -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of variation and skewness -- Probability theory -- Statistical decision theory -- Linear programming and problem formulation -- Sampling theory -- Hypothesis testing -- The chi-square tests --...

This textbook emphasizes the applications of statistics and probability to finance. Students are assumed to have had a prior course in statistics, but no background in finance or economics. The basics of probability and statistics are reviewed and more advanced topics in statistics, such as...