Stats To Go

by Buglear

• ISBN13: 9780750645560
• ISBN10: 0750645563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-05
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

'stats to Go' is a user-friendly guide for hospitality, leisure and tourism students who need to learn statistics and statistical techniques. 'stats to go' is an ideal companion to hospitality, leisure and tourism studies as the breadth of coverage supports all taught numerical aspects of these types of course. Examples from hospitality, leisure and tourism organizations: * licensed premises * fast food outlets * hotels * theme parks and their environments are used to illustrate key issues of the text. The area of quantitative methods is one which many students find unapproachable or daunting. with the use of a clear learning structure, and a user friendly, non-theoretical approach, Buglear has created a text which students and lecturers alike will find indispensable. Minimal use of technical language and provides clear definitions of essential terms and notations Employs thematic and illustrative examples based on a variety of hospitality contexts Emphasises 'interpretation' rather than 'technique'

Author Biography

John Buglear is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Operational Research at Nottingham Trent University

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Starting out	1	(21)
Numbers in the hospitality and tourism industries	2	(2)
How this book is organized	4	(1)
Taking the first steps	5	(11)
Technological support	16	(6)
Review questions	19	(3)
Presenting data	22	(31)
Types of data	23	(2)
Displaying qualitative data	25	(9)
Displaying quantitative data	34	(19)
Review questions	50	(3)
Summarizing univariate data	53	(31)
Measures of location	54	(14)
Measures of spread	68	(16)
Review questions	81	(3)
Summarizing bivariate data	84	(36)
Correlation and regression	85	(16)
Summarizing data collected over time	101	(19)
Review questions	111	(9)
Assessing risk	120	(21)
Measuring probability	122	(3)
Different types of probabilities	125	(3)
The rules of probability	128	(8)
Tree diagrams	136	(5)
Review questions	138	(3)
Putting probability to work	141	(24)
Simple probability distributions	142	(5)
Binomial distributions	147	(6)
Poisson distributions	153	(3)
Expectation	156	(2)
Decision trees	158	(7)
Review questions	161	(4)
Simulating populations	165	(32)
Normal distributions	166	(8)
The Standard Normal Distribution	174	(13)
Sampling distributions	187	(3)
t distributions	190	(7)
Review questions	193	(4)
Statistical decision making	197	(29)
Estimation	198	(13)
Hypothesis testing	211	(15)
Review questions	224	(2)
Statistical decision making using bivariate data	226	(28)
Contingency tests	227	(9)
Testing and estimating using quantitative bivariate data	236	(18)
Review questions	250	(4)
Managing statistical research	254	(19)
Secondary data	256	(2)
Primary data	258	(10)
Presenting your analysis	268	(5)
Appendix Solutions to selected review questions	273	(4)
Index	277