This fifth edition of Business Statistics retains the rich pedagogy and style of the earlier editions with new features devised to hone the readers’ decision making ability through practical and applied statistics. The book presents numerous case studies, examples and exercises that outline the methods of converting data into useful information.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction and Data Collection Chapter 2 : Presenting Data in Tables and Charts Chapter 3 : Numerical Descriptive Measures Chapter 4 : Basic Probability Chapter 5 : Discrete Probability Distributions Chapter 6 : The Normal Distribution Chapter 7 : Sampling and Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 : Confidence Interval Estimation Chapter 9 : Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests Chapter 10 : Two-Sample Tests and One-Way Anova Chapter 11 : Chi-Square Tests Chapter 12 : Simple Linear Regression Chapter 13 : Multiple Regression Chapter 14 : Statistical Applications in Quality Management Chapter 15 : Decision Analysis Chapter 16 : Forecasting
Appendices
A : Review of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Logarithms
B : Summation Notation and Statistical Symbols
C : Basic Computing Skills
D : Student CD-Rom Contents
E : Tables
F : Student CD-Rom and Software FAQs
Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Problems
Index
