Statistics for Management/Book and Disk

by Levin, Richard I.; Rubin, David S.

• ISBN13: 9780138477813
• ISBN10: 0138477817
• Edition: Disk
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

With Statistics for Management, Levin and Rubin have provided a non-intimidating business statistics book that users can easily read and understand. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition includes the absolute minimum of mathematical/statistical notation necessary to teach the material. Concepts are fully explained in simple, easy-to-understand language as they are presented, making the book an excellent source from which to learn and teach. After each discussion, readers are guided through real-world examples to show how book principles work in professional practice. Includes easy-to-understand explanations of difficult statistical topics, such as sampling distributions, relationship between confidence level and confidence interval, interpreting r-square. A complete package of teaching/learning aids is provided in every chapter, including chapter review exercises, chapter concepts tests,"Statistics at Work" conceptual cases, "Computer Database Exercises", "From the Textbook to the Real-World Examples."

Table of Contents

Introduction

Grouping and Displaying Data to Convey Meaning: Tables and Graphs

Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion in Frequency Distributions

Probability I: Introductory Ideas

Probability Distributions

Sampling and Sampling Distributions

Estimation

Testing Hypotheses: One Sample Tests

Testing Hypotheses: Two-Sample Tests

Quality and Quality Control

Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance

Simple Regression and Correlation

Multiple Regression and Modeling

Nonparametric Methods

Time Series and Forecasting

Index Numbers

Decision Theory

Appendix Tables

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