Statistics and Data Analysis

Andrew F. Siegel holds the Grant I. Butterbaugh Professorship in Quantitative Methods and Finance at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, and is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics. His Ph.D. is in statistics from Stanford University (1977). Before settling in Seattle, he held teaching and/ or research positions at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, the RAND Corporation, the Smithsonian Institution, and Princeton University. He has taught statistics at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and earned seven teaching awards in 2015 and 2016. The interest-rate model he developed with Charles Nelson (the Nelson-Siegel Model) is in use at central banks around the world. His work has been translated into Chinese and Russian. His articles have appeared in many publications, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, the American Statistician, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, the American Mathematical Monthly, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Annals of Statistics, the Annals of Probability, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Statistics in Medicine, Biometrika, Biometrics, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mathematical Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Applied Probability.

• DESCRIBING GROUPS OF NUMBERS. The Shape of a Group of Numbers.Describing Distributions.Describing a Normal Distribution and Summarizing Binary Data.Basics of Data Transformation.Choosing a Description.PROBABILITY, SAMPLING, AND TESTS OF STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE.Probability.Random Variables, Probability Distributions, and the Central Limit Theorem.Toward Statistical Inference.Confidence Intervals.Testing a Hypothesis About the Mean.MORE THAN ONE GROUP OF NUMBERS.Comparing Two Groups of Numbers.Analysis of Variance: Several Groups of Numbers.Categorical Data and Chi-Square Analysis.Bivariate Data and Regression.Appendices.Notes.References.Answers to Selected Problems.Index.