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
