Exercises and Solutions in Probability and Statistics

Hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises with solutions that test student understanding of the material. Many of which are educational in their own right-for example, stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average generally do better than the stocks that replaced them.

Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He has won two teaching awards and written (or co-authored) more than 100 academic papers and 20 books. His statistical and financial research has been featured in various media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, NPR Tech Nation, NBC Bay Area, CNBC, WYNC, WBBR Bloomberg Radio, NBC Think, Silicon Valley Insider, Motley Fool, Scientific American, Forbes, MarketWatch, MoneyCentral.msn, NewsWeek, Fast Company, The Economist, MindMatters, OZY, Slate, and BusinessWeek.