Statistics for Business and Economics (with CD-ROM)
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Intended for undergraduates studying business administration or economics, this textbook serves as a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics. Topics include data, descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, variance, regression, forecasting, nonparametric methods, and decision analysis. The text emphasizes applications--especially applications of data analysis--and assumes mathematical knowledge only at the level of algebra. The authors teach at the University of Cincinnati and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1. Data and Statistics. 2. Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations. 3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures. 4. Introduction to Probability. 5. Discrete Probability Distributions. 6. Continuous Probability Distributions. 7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions. 8. Interval Estimation. 9. Hypothesis Testing. 10. Statistical Inference about Means and Proportions with Two Populations. 11. Inferences About Population Variances. 12. Test of Goodness of Fit and Independence. 13. Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance. 14. Simple Regression. 15. Multiple Regression. 16. Regression Analysis: Model Building. 17. Index Numbers. 18. Forecasting. 19. Nonparametric Methods. 20. Statistical Methods for Quality Control. 21. Decision Analysis. 22. Sample Survey (on CD). Appendices. A: References and Bibliography. B: Tables. C: Summation Notation. D: Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Even-Numbered Exercises. E: Using Excel Functions. F: Computing p-values.
