Comparative Study of Sports Statistics Textbooks and Other Disciplines' Statistics Textbooks

Abstract

Through the literature review, mathematical statistics and comparative studies have been done for the proportion of some sections in seven kinds of statistics textbooks. The seven kinds of statistics textbooks is respectively about sports, education, psychology, business, socio-economics, biology and medicine. The results show that sports statistics textbook should enforce the composition of research design, data collection and collation, and statistical reports, it is also suggested to pay more attention to the applicability of textbooks, the initiative of students and the introduction of statistical software. So this project aims at providing theoretical supports for statistics textbooks to be more conductive to the development of physical discipline of statistics and to be more suitable for students.