Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, "Updated"

by Groebner, David F.; Shannon, Patrick W.; Fry, Phillip C.; Smith, Kent D.

• ISBN13: 9780130934918
• ISBN10: 0130934917
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover w/CD
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For the one or two-semester course in Business Statistics. This comprehensive text presents descriptive and inferential statistics with a rich assortment of business examples and real data and an emphasis on decision-making. There is significant emphasis on using statistical software as a tool, with most examples presented in a spreadsheet environment using Excel and Minitab.

Table of Contents

The Where, Why, And How Of Data Collection	1	(36)
Graphs, Charts, And Tables---Describing Your Data	37	(44)
Describing Data Using Numerical Measures	81	(42)
Using Probability And Discrete Probability Distributions	123	(63)
Continuous Probability Distributions	186	(31)
Introduction To Sampling Distributions	217	(40)
Estimating Population Values	257	(34)
Introduction To Hypothesis Testing	291	(42)
Hypothesis Testing And Estimation For Two Population Values	333	(45)
Analysis Of Variance	378	(46)
Introduction To Linear Regression And Correlation Analysis	424	(52)
Multiple Regression Analysis And Model Building	476	(66)
Introduction To Quality And Statistical Process Control	542	(34)
Goodness-Of-Fit Tests And Contingency Analysis	576	(28)
Introduction To Nonparametric Statistics	604	(36)
Analyzing And Forecasting Time-Series Data	640	(46)
Introduction To Decision Analysis	686	(72)
Appendix A Random Numbers Table	758	(1)
Appendix B Binomial Distribution Table	759	(20)
Appendix C Poisson Probability Distribution Table	779	(5)
Appendix D Standard Normal Distribution Table	784	(1)
Appendix E Exponential Distribution Table	785	(1)
Appendix F Values of t for Selected Probabilities	786	(3)
Appendix G Values of χ2 for Selected Probabilities	789	(1)
Appendix H F-Distribution Table	790	(4)
Appendix I Critical Values of Hartley's Fmax Test	794	(1)
Appendix J Distribution of the Studentized Range	795	(2)
Appendix K Critical Values of r in the Runs Table	797	(1)
Appendix L Mann-Whitney U Test Probabilities (n < 9)	798	(3)
Appendix M Mann-Whitney U Test Critical Values (9 ≤ n ≤ 20)	801	(2)
Appendix N Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test, n ≤ 25	803