A Brief Course in Business Statistics

by Mendenhall, William; Beaver, Robert J.; Beaver, Barbara M.

• ISBN13: 9780534381301
• ISBN10: 0534381308
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-26
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Based on their popular book, A COURSE IN BUSINESS STATISTICS, this condensed text by William Mendenhall, Robert J. Beaver, and Barbara M. Beaver emphasizes the important concepts and methods of statistics that students are likely to see and use in their future courses and careers. Clear and easy to comprehend, this text achieves a balance of manual and computer methods, and emphasizes applications. The authors' approach is reflected in their objective: to make inferences about a population from information contained in a sample drawn from that population, and to assess the reliability of the inference. Students are shown how to solve problems even where uncertainty exists, because uncertain situations will confront them in business. Using this knowledge, students soon begin to understand the role of statistics in making informed business decisions and in shaping daily life, and to appreciate the implications of reported statistics.

Table of Contents

What Is Statistics?	1	(11)
Describing Sets of Data	12	(77)
Probability and Discrete Probability Distributions	89	(41)
Useful Discrete Probability Distributions	130	(27)
The Normal and Other Continuous Probability Distributions	157	(31)
Sampling Distributions	188	(32)
Estimation of Means and Proportions	220	(53)
Tests of Hypotheses for Means and Proportions	273	(80)
The Analysis of Variance	353	(68)
Quality Control	421	(44)
Linear Regression and Correlation	465	(48)
Multiple Regression Analysis	513	(58)
The Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test	571	(29)
Appendix I Description of the Data Sets	600	(2)
Appendix II Tables	602	(31)
Appendix III Case Studies	633	(13)
Appendix IV Primary Data Sources	646	(5)
Appendix V Using Excel	651	(22)
Answers to Selected Exercises	673	(15)
Index	688