Description
Book SynopsisEvery business area relies on an understanding of statistics to succeed.
Statistics for Business and Economics by Carlos Cortinhas and Ken Black shows students that the proper application of statistics in the business world goes hand-in-hand with good decision making. Every statistical tool presented in this book has a business application set in a global context and the many learning features and easy to use structure will engage and reassure each business statistic student.
Table of ContentsUnit I Introduction
1 Introduction to Statistics 3
2 Charts and Graphs 19
3 Descriptive Statistics 51
4 Probability 102
Unit II Distributions and Sampling
5 Discrete Distributions 149
6 Continuous Distributions 194
7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 234
Unit III Making Inferences About Population Parameters
8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 271
9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 310
10 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 363
11 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 422
Unit IV Regression Analysis and Forecasting
12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 487
13 Multiple Regression Analysis 545
14 Building Multiple Regression Models 578
15 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 625
Unit V Categorical Data and Non-parametric Statistics
16 Analysis of Categorical Data 685
17 Non-parametric Statistics 713
Appendices
A Tables 765
B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 807
Glossary 819
Index 829
Website Materials
18 Statistical Quality Control
19 Decision Analysis
