Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, Student Study Guide , 4th Edition

by Ken Black (Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake, TX)

• ISBN13: 9780471466079
• ISBN10: 0471466077
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

The text is not written for those students who will become statisticians; it is written for future decision makers in business. The focus and goal is to make students better quantitative decision makers.The concepts of statistics are presented in the setting of business decision making through the use of many real world examples, real business data and applications.Student Study Guide: Designed to be used alongside the text book, this invaluable step-by-step study guide walks students through the text as they read it and work problems while supporting the decision making approach.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Statistics	1	(6)
Charts and Graphs	7	(18)
Descriptive Statistics	25	(24)
Probability	49	(16)
Discrete Distributions	65	(22)
Continuous Distributions	87	(28)
Sampling and Sampling Distributions	115	(20)
Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations	135	(16)
Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations	151	(26)
Statistical Inferences about Two Populations	177	(26)
Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments	203	(18)
Analysis of Categorical Data	221	(22)
Simple Regression Analysis	243	(22)
Multiple Regression Analysis	265	(6)
Building Multiple Regression Models	271	(8)
Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers	279	(24)
Nonparametric Statistics	303	(28)
Statistical Quality Control	331	(16)
Decision Analysis	347