Elementary Statistics

This book presents topics that are discussed in freshman Statistics course for college students in business and social sciences. Having taught these courses for some years, we have difficulty in identifying and providing students a book that is relevant to the studied topics being studied in these courses.This book is aimed at making the students learn ¿Where and How¿ to apply the major statistical concepts and tools and finally Making Inferences or Decisions based on the available information (data). It emphasizes descriptive statistics and basics of probability theory that includes collection and organization of statistical data, frequency distributions, graphical presentation, measure of positions, measures of central tendency and dispersion as Descriptive Statistics, and sample spaces; events; probability measures; independent events; conditional probability; random variables, mean and variance of a random variable; binomial distribution; normal distribution as the Basics Of Probability Theory, as well as the Correlation and Regression Analysis.