Readings and Problems in Statistical Methods (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Readings and Problems in Statistical Methods<br><br>It is the teachers' obligation to make his laboratory exercises of interest to those whom he asks to take part in them, and to couple them with concrete business, industrial and social experiences. The make-work problems to which students are too often assigned, as part of their laboratory work, not only fail to arouse intellectual interest, but have the effect of divorcing the laboratory from the life which the student is living. They are too often looked upon as tasks or penalties, rather than as opportunities to take part in explaining, illustrating, and summarizing data which have to be manipulated before they can be used as bases for business and social judgments.<br><br>Laboratory problems should be chosen from business and social fields, and should include topics in which the student himself has an interest, and which he would be willing and eager to study statistically, in order more fully to understand. It is not difficult to select problems of this character and to secure data relating to them. In no other single problem, in the writer's experience as a teacher, has so much interest been developed on the part of his students in statistics, as in the study of expenditures for food at a local cafeteria. Theater tickets, types of business buildings, real estate valuations, show window decorations, classified advertisements, types of news items, stock and bond quotations, money rates, etc., all lend themselves to statistical treatment and arouse statistical interest. The writer has never been at a loss to find problems which create interest and which are worthy of study.<br><br>It is, therefore, with considerable hesitation that so-called Review Problems have been included in this book.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.