Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Why I wrote this book -- About the illustrations -- the Seven Emotional Hinderers -- Background: how the Emotional Hinderers evolved -- The curtain is lifted: where to find the seven characters in the book --...

Descriptive and inductive statistics as the science to work with empirical data belong to the most interesting, wide-ranging, but also to the most difficult tools to solve nearly all important political, economical and social tasks in a modern society. Therefore statistics are an essential part...

Changing from Diplom to Bachelor has been used by the department of Business Administration of the University of Applied Science in Rheinbach to restructure the lectures in statistics. This is true for “Business Statistics” in first year and “Quantitative Methods in Consulting” in third...

"Representative longitudinal data for German firms (establishments or enterprises) that can be used for scientific analyses are mainly from two sources, the IAB Establishment Panel and the AFiD-Panel based on surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. This paper compares the data from these...