Were you looking for the book with access to MyStatLab? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyStatLab. Buy the book and access card package to save money on this resource. In Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, authors Robert Stine and Dean Foster of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, take a sophisticated approach to teaching statistics in the context of making good business decisions. The authors show students how to recognize and understand each business question, use statistical tools to do the analysis, and how to communicate their results clearly and concisely. In addition to providing cases and real data to demonstrate real business situations, this text provides resources to support understanding and engagement. A successful problem-solving framework in the 4-M Examples (Motivation, Method, Mechanics, Message) model a clear outline for solving problems, new What Do You Think questions give students an opportunity to stop and check their understanding as they read, and new learning objectives guide students through each chapter and help them to review major goals. Software Hints provide instructions for using the most up-to-date technology packages. The Second Edition also includes expanded coverage and instruction of Excel(R) 2010 and the XLSTAT(TM) add-in. The MyStatLab(TM) course management system includes increased exercise coverage with the Second Edition, along with 100% of the You Do It exercises and a library of 1,000 Conceptual Questions that require students to apply their statistical understanding to conceptual business scenarios. Business Insight Videos show students how statistical methods are used by real businesses, and new StatTalk Videos present statistical concepts through a series of fun, brief, real-world examples. Technology tutorial videos at the exercise level support software use.
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Preface Index of Application   PART ONE: VARIATION   1. Introduction 1.1 What Is Statistics? 1.2 Previews   2. Data 2.1 Data Tables 2.2 Categorical and Numerical Data 2.3 Recoding and Aggregation 2.4 Time Series 2.5 Further Attributes of Data    Chapter Summary   3. Describing Categorical Data 3.1 Looking at Data 3.2 Charts of Categorical Data 3.3 The Area Principle 3.4 Mode and Median    Chapter Summary   4. Describing Numerical Data 4.1 Summaries of Numerical Variables 4.2 Histograms 4.3 Boxplot 4.4 Shape of a Distribution 4.5 Epilog    Chapter Summary   5. Association between Categorical Variables 5.1 Contingency Tables 5.2 Lurking Variables and Simpson's Paradox 5.3 Strength of Association    Chapter Summary   6. Association between Quantitative Variables 6.1 Scatterplots 6.2 Association in Scatterplots 6.3 Measuring Association 6.4 Summarizing Association with a Line 6.5 Spurious Correlation    Chapter Summary    Statistics in Action: Financial Time Series    Statistics in Action: Executive Compensation   PART TWO: PROBABILITY   7. Probability 7.1 From Data to Probability 7.2 Rules for Probability 7.3 Independent Events    Chapter Summary   8. Conditional Probability 8.1 From Tables to Probabilities 8.2 Dependent Events 8.3 O rganizing Probabilities 8.4 O rder in Conditional Probabilities    Chapter Summary   9. Random Variables 9.1 Random Variables 9.2 Properties of Random Variables 9.3 Properties of Expected Values 9.4 Comparing Random Variables    Chapter Summary   10. Association between Random Variables 10.1 Portfolios and Random Variables 10.2 Joint Probability Distribution 10.3 Sums of Random Variables 10.4 Dependence between Random Variables 10.5 IID Random Variables 10.6 Weighted Sums    Chapter Summary   11. Probability Models for Counts 11.1 Random Variables for Counts 11.2 Binomial Model 11.3 Properties of Binomial Random Variables 11.4 Poisson Model    Chapter Summary   12. The Normal Probability Model 12.1 Normal Random Variable 12.2 The Normal Model 12.3 Percentiles 12.4 Departures from Normality    Chapter Summary    Statistics in Action: Managing Financial Risk    Statistics in Action: Modeling Sampling Variation   PART THREE: INFERENCE   13. Samples and Surveys 13.1 Two Surprising Properties of Samples 13.2 Variation 13.3 Alternative Sampling Methods 13.4 Questions to Ask    Chapter Summary   14. Sampling Variation and Quality 14.1 Sampling Distribution of the Mean 14.2 Control Limits 14.3 Using a Control Chart 14.4 Control Charts for Variation    Chapter Summary   15. Confidence Intervals 15.1 Ranges for Parameters 15.2 Confidence Interval for the Mean 15.3 Interpreting Confidence Intervals 15.4 Manipulating Confidence Intervals 15.5 Margin of Error    Chapter Summary   16. Statistical Tests 16.1 Concepts of Statistical Tests 16.2 Testing the Proportion 16.3 Testing the Mean 1
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Statistics in Practice: Preparing Students for Real Business 4-M Examples (Motivation, Method, Mechanics, Message) provide a consistent methodology used for worked-out examples. This approach gives students a consistent structure for solving problems and presenting their findings in the appropriate context.Running Business Examples start each chapter by framing a business question to motivate the contents of the chapter. The example is referenced throughout the chapter when new statistical methods are presented.Statistics in Action case studies follow each of the four parts of the book. These longer applications expand on the statistical methods presented within the preceding part and use them to delve into substantive aspects of real-world business cases.Video resources available in MyStatLab offer students insight into how statistical concepts are applied in the business world and the world around us. Business Insight Videos show how statistical methods are used by real businesses.NEW! StatTalk Videos present statistical concepts through a series of fun, brief, real-world vignettes. Practice & Support: Challenging Students to Assess, Analyze and Report NEW! More than 150 exercises are new or have been updated to provide readers with the most up-to-date and relevant data available.Exercises are divided into five types. Each type focuses on a particular skill to build a deeper understanding of business statistics.Mix and Match and True/False problems test whether students recognize symbols and important steps of calculations.Think About It questions encourage students to pull together concepts and ideas from the chapter; no technology is required.You Do It problems provide practice working through the mechanics of solving a problem (statistical software usage is recommended). These exercises apply the statistical concepts students have learned in the chapter to data related to a business application. Data are available on the included CD-ROM.4-M Questions are richer, more substantive problems that mimic real applications of statistics in business. Data are available on the included CD-ROM. Support NEW! 30 new What Do You Think? questions check students’ comprehension of the important ideas in the preceding section, ensuring that they understand the concepts before moving on in the chapter.Caution icons indicate a concept that can be troublesome and helps students avoid making common mistakes.Tip icons highlight important ideas or hints within the exposition so that readers don’t overlook them.Best Practices and Pitfalls listed at the end of every chapter offer reminders to help students avoid mistakes such as using the wrong method for a situation, or misinterpreting results. Technology Integration: Giving Students More Tools for Their Future Careers Software Hints at the end of each chapter provide relevant commands for popular statistics packages: Excel®, Minitab®, and JMP®.Extensive graphics, including Excel screenshots throughout the chapters and exercise sets, give students the opportunity to get familiar with seeing and interpreting statistical software output.Technology Tutorial Videos and Study Cards within MyStatLab provide targeted guidance to using statistical software. (Study Cards are available for bundling.)
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Many features and resources have been updated to better support understanding and engagement, in addition to providing cases and real data to demonstrate real business situations. Additional Excel® screenshots throughout the exercise sets offer students practice interpreting statistical software output.30 new What Do You Think? questions check students’ comprehension of the important ideas in the preceding section, ensuring that they understand the concepts before moving on in the chapter.Each chapter now includes a list of learning objectives that provide guidance as students explore each chapter and review the major goals of the chapter.More than 150 exercises are new or have been updated to provide readers with the most up-to-date and relevant data available.This edition expands coverage of chi-squared tests to a full chapter (Chapter 18).Online supplementary material includes methods to use when standard procedures fail (Chapter 17 of the previous edition) and further coverage of two-way analysis of variance and the practice of building regression models.
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ISBN
9781292023397
Publisert
2013-08-22
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson Education Limited
Vekt
1942 gr
Høyde
274 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
944