Understanding Business Statistics

by Freed, Ned; Jones, Stacey; Bergquist, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9781118145258
• ISBN10: 1118145259
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2013-12-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.

Written in a conversational tone, Freed, Understanding Business Statistics presents topics in a systematic and organized manner to help students navigate the material. Demonstration problems appear alongside the concepts, making the content easier to understand. By explaining the reasoning behind each exercise, students are more inclined to engage with the material and gain a clear understanding of how to apply statistics to the business world. Freed, Understanding Business Statistics is accompanied by WileyPLUS, a research-based, online environment for effective teaching and learning. This online learning system gives students instant  feedback on homework assignments, provides video tutorials and variety of study tools, and offers instructors thousands of  reliable, accurate problems (including every problem from the book) to deliver automatically graded assignments or tests. Available in or outside of the Blackboard Learn Environment, WileyPLUS resources help reach all types of learners and give instructors the tools they need to enhance course material.

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Author Biography

Ned Freed graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in mathematics, earned an M.B.A from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a PhD in Management Science (1978) from the University of Colorado. He has authored a number of articles dealing with mathematical programming applications to statistical problems and has worked extensively with Prof. Fred Glover at the University of Colorado to produce linear programming alternatives to conventional methods of multivariate discriminant analysis. Professor Glover was awarded the 2010 IMPACT Award by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for contributions that have had a broad and enduring impact on the fields of Operations Research and Management Science. INFORMS is that largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R), management sciences, and business analytics.

Stacey Jones is the author of Understanding Business Statistics, Binder Ready Version, published by Wiley.

Timothy Bergquist is the author of Understanding Business Statistics, Binder Ready Version, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Statistics
Chapter 2 - Descriptive Statistics I: Elementary Data Presentation and Description
Chapter 3 - Descriptive Statistics II: Additional Descriptive Measures and Data Displays
Chapter 4 - Probability
Chapter 5 - Discrete Probability Distributions
Chapter 6 - Continuous Probability Distributions
Chapter 7 - Statistical Inference: Estimating a Population Mean
Chapter 8 - Interval Estimates for Proportions, Mean Differences and Proportion Differences
Chapter 9 - Statistical Hypothesis Testing: Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean
Chapter 10 - Hypothesis Tests for Proportions, Mean Differences and Proportion Differences
Chapter 11 - Basic Regression Analysis
Chapter 12 - Multiple Regression
Chapter 13 - F Tests and Analysis of Variance
Chapter 13 - (part 2) Experimental Design (Online Only)
Chapter 14 - Chi-Square Tests
APPENDIX A: Tables
APPENDIX B: Answers to selected even-numbered exercises