The authors bring more than twenty-five years of unmatched experience to this text, along with sound statistical methodology, a proven problem-scenario approach, and meaningful applications that clearly demonstrate how statistical information informs decisions in the business world. Thoroughly updated, the text's more than 350 real business examples, cases, and memorable exercises present the latest statistical data and business information with unwavering accuracy. And, to give you the most relevant text you can get for your course, you select the topics you want, including coverage of popular commercial statistical software programs like Minitab 16 and Excel 2010, along with StatTools and other leading Excel 2010 statistical add-ins. These optional chapter appendices, coordinating online data sets, and support materials like the CengageNOW online course management system, make "Statistics For Business And Economics, 12e, International Edition" the most customizable, efficient, and powerful approach to teaching business statistics available today.
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Deals with the sound statistical methodology, and meaningful applications that clearly demonstrate how statistical information informs decisions in the business world. This title offers more than 350 real business examples, cases, and memorable exercises that present the statistical data and business information with unwavering accuracy.
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Preface. 1. Data and Statistics. 2. Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Displays. 3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures. 4. Introduction to Probability. 5. Discrete Probability Distributions. 6. Continuous Probability Distributions. 7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions. 8. Interval Estimation. 9. Hypothesis Tests. 10. Inference about Means and Proportions with Two Populations. 11. Inferences about Population Variances. 12. Comparing Multiple Proportions, Test of Independence and Goodness of Fit. 13. Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance. 14. Simple Linear Regression. 15. Multiple Regression. 16. Regression Analysis: Model Building. 17. Time Series Analysis and Forecasting. 18. Nonparametric Methods. 19. Statistical Methods for Quality Control. 20. Index Numbers. 21. Decision Analysis. 22. Sample Survey(online). Appendix A. References and Bibliography. Appendix B. Tables. Appendix C. Summation Notation. Appendix D. Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Even -Numbered Exercises. Appendix E. Microsoft Excel 2010 and Tools for Statistical Analysis. Appendix F. Computing p-Values Using Minitab and Excel. Index.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781285172309
Publisert
2013-01-01
Utgave
12. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
South-Western College Publishing
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
189 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
1120