Contemporary Business Statistics With Microsoft Excel

by Anderson, David R.; Sweeney, Dennis J.; Williams, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9780324020830
• ISBN10: 032402083X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-17
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Intended for managers and decision-makers who would like to have a better understanding of the vast amounts of statistical information in today's global business and economic environment. By utilizing Microsoft Excel to perform statistical analyses, this text will help the business professional to have a better understanding of how to use statistics to make better business decisions.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
About the Authors	xx
Data and Statistics	1	(24)
Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods	25	(53)
Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods	78	(59)
Introduction to Probability	137	(44)
Discrete Probability Distributions	181	(39)
Continuous Probability Distributions	220	(31)
Sampling and Sampling Distributions	251	(39)
Interval Estimation	290	(36)
Hypothesis Testing	326	(49)
Comparisons Involving Means	375	(56)
Comparisons Involving Proportions	431	(32)
Regression Analysis	463	(81)
Statistical Methods for Quality Control	544
Appendixes
Appendix A References and Bibliography	2
Appendix B Tables	3
Appendix C Summation Notation	13
Appendix D Answers to Even-Numbered Exercises	15
Appendix E Solutions to Self-Test Exercises	28
Appendix F Excel Functions and the Function Wizard	44