Introduction to Economic Statistics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Introduction to Economic Statistics

The application of statistical methods to special fields such as demography, education, and economics has in recent years advanced very rapidly. As a result a study of statistical principles must be confined chiefly to one of the special fields if it is not to be lost in the multiplicity of specific methods and illustrations. This text-book has been written with the interests of the student of economics in mind.

A common difficulty which the teacher of statistics encounters is a lack of provision for laboratory work. An attempt has here been made to supply this need by furnishing illustrative problems, graphs, and data which may be worked over by the student, and by adding to each chapter a list of related exercises. The exercises will be found extensive enough so that the teacher may select those which are adapted to his requirements. The longer problems should be subdivided, and the parts assigned to different members of the class. Both the tables and the exercises may very well be supplemented by the use of data drawn from such sources as the Survey of Current Business, the Monthly Labor Review, and the Statistical Abstract of the United States (Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C). The topics covered in the text represent probably a maximum of what can be mastered by a college class in a term.

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