Business Statistics in Practice w/Student CD
by Bowerman, Bruce L.Edition: 5th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-02-21
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Summary
The new edition of Business Statistics in Practice provides a modern, practical, and unique framework for teaching the first course in business statistics. This framework features case study and example- driven discussions of all basic business statistics topics. In addition, the authors have rewritten many of the discussions in this edition and have explained concepts more simply from first principles. The only prerequisite for this text is high school algebra.
Table of Contents
| An Introduction to Business Statistics | |
| Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods | |
| Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods | |
| Probability | |
| Discrete Random Variables | |
| Continuous Random Variables | |
| Sampling Distributions | |
| Confidence Intervals | |
| Hypothesis Testing | |
| Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples | |
| Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance | |
| Chi-Square Tests | |
| Simple Linear Regression Analysis | |
| Multiple Regression | |
| Model Buildling and Model Diagnostics | |
| Time Series Forecasting | |
| Process Improvement Using Control Charts | |
| Nonparametric Methods | |
| Decision Theory | |
| Statistical Tables | |
| Counting Rules | |
| Hypergeometric Distribution | |
| Properties of the Mean and the Varijance of a Random Variable, and the Covariance | |
| Derivations of the Mean and Variance of x(bar) and p(hat). On CD-ROM | |
| (Part I): Stratified Random Sampling | |
| (Part II): Cluster Sampling and Ratios Estimation | |
| Using Matrix Algebra to Perform Regression Calculations | |
| The Regression Approach to Two-Way Anallysis of Variance | |
| Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, and Multidimensional Scaling | |
| The Box-Jenkins Methodology | |
| Holt-Winters’ Models | |
| Individual Charts and c Charts | |
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