Business Statistics : A First Course

by Levine, David M.; Krehbiel, Timothy C.; Berenson, Mark L.

• ISBN13: 9780130867544
• ISBN10: 0130867543
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Intended for a one term course in Business Statistics for those instructors looking for a briefer book. This text covers the concepts and applications of statistics used in the functional areas of BusinessAccounting, Marketing, Management, Economics, and Finance. Thoroughly revised to shift its emphasis more on concepts than statistical methods, it shows students how to properly use statistics to analyze data, demonstrate how computer software is an integral part of this analysis, and provide many exercises, cases and projects to support the learning process.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Data Collection	1	(38)
Presenting Data in Tables and Charts	39	(62)
Summarizing and Describing Numerical Data	101	(52)
Basic Probability and Probability Distributions	153	(98)
Sampling Distributions and Confidence Interval Estimation	251	(56)
Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests	307	(44)
Two-Sample and c-Sample Tests with Numerical Data	351	(64)
Two-Sample and c-Sample Tests with Categorical Data	415	(40)
Simple Linear Regression and Correlation	455	(68)
Multiple Regression Models	523	(70)
Time-Series Analysis	593	(68)
Statistical Applications in Quality and Productivity Management	661	(46)
Answers to Selected Problems (•)	707
Appendix A Review of Arithmetic and Algebra	1
Appendix B Summation Notation	3
Appendix C Statistical Symbols and Greek Alphabet	8
Appendix D Documentation for CD-ROM Files (on attached CD)	1
Appendix E Tables	9
Appendix F Installing the PHStat Microsoft Excel Add-In	26
Index	1