Description
Book SynopsisRobert (Bob) A. Donnelly, Jr. was a professor at Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware, with more than 25 years of teaching experience. He taught classes in statistics, operations management, spreadsheet modeling and project management at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Bob earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, after which he worked for several years as an engineer with the Diamond Shamrock Corporation in a chlorine plant. Despite success in this field, Bob felt drawn to pursue a career in education. It was his desire to teach that took him back to school to earn his MBA and PhD in Operations Research, also from the University of Delaware. Bob also teaches in the MBA program at the International School of Management in Paris, France. He thoroughly enjoys discussing research methods and business statistics with both his French and American students.
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
- An Introduction to Business Statistics
- Displaying Descriptive Statistics
- Calculating Descriptive Statistics
- Introduction to Probabilities
- Discrete Probability Distributions
- Continuous Probability Distributions
- Sampling and Sampling Distributions
- Confidence Intervals
- Hypothesis Testing for a Single Population
- Hypothesis Tests Comparing Two Populations
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Procedures
- Chi-Square Tests
- Hypothesis Tests for the Population Variance
- Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
- Multiple Regression and Model Building
- Forecasting
- Decision Analysis (online)
- Nonparametric Statistics (online)
Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Problems
