Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics

Index

Page numbers in italics indicate figures and tables.

A

Addition rule in probability 108–109

Air pollution, effect on life expectancy 309–310

Alternative hypothesis (H₁) 192

Anger and heart attacks 151–152

Athletic performance 30–31

Autoregressive models 350–353

Average. See Mean

Average absolute deviation 76

B

Bar charts 27–33

with interval data 32–33

Baruch, Bernard 3

Baseball 114, 273

Base period in percentage change 80–82

Basketball 30

Bayes, Thomas 107–108, 117–118

Bayesian 107

Bayesian analysis of drug testing 118–119

Bayes’s rule 117–118

Bayes’ theorem 117–118

Behavioral economics 147

Bell-shaped curve. See Normal distribution

Bernanke, Ben 1, 3

Best fit 224

Bias 149–152

Big Mac hamburgers 7

Binet, Alfred 130

Bowling 31

Box-and-whisker ...