Essentials of Business Statistics with Student CD-ROM

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-15
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Summary

The new edition of Essentials of Business Statistics delivers clear and understandable explanations of core business statistics concepts, making it ideal for a one term course in business statistics. Containing continuing case studies that emphasize the theme of business improvement, the text offers real applications of statistics that are relevant to today's business students. The authors motivate students by showing persuasively how the use of statistical techniques in support of business decision-making helps to improve business processes. A variety of computer centered examples and exercises, and a robust, technology-based ancillary package are designed to help students master this subject..

Author Biography

Bruce L. Bowerman is professor of decision sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Business Statistics

Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 3: Probability

Chapter 4: Discrete Random Variables

Chapter 5: Continuous Random Variables

Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions

Chapter 7: Confidence Intervals

Chapter 8: Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 9: Comparing Population Means

Chapter 10: Comparing Proportions and Chi-Square Tests

Chapter 11: Simple Linear Regression Analysis

Chapter 12: Multiple Regression And Model Building

Appendix A: Statistical Tables

Appendix B: Counting Rules

Appendix C: The Hypergeometric Distribution

Appendix D: Properties of the Mean and the Variance of a Random Variable, and the Covariance

Appendix E: Derivations of the Mean and Variance of x and p

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