Statistics for Business and Economics

James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich

1028 pages, parution le 11/01/2002

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Résumé

For a one/two-term business statistics course.

Designed for students with a background in basic algebra, this best- selling introduction to statistics for business and economics emphasizes inference, with extensive coverage of data collection and analysis as needed to evaluate the reported results of statistical studies and make good business decisions. It stresses the development of statistical thinking, the assessment of credibility and value of the inferences made from data—both by those who consume and those who produce them—and features numerous case studies, examples, and exercises, all drawing on real business situations and recent economic events.

Contents

Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking.
Methods for Describing Sets of Data.
Probability.
Discrete Random Variables.
Continuous Random Variables.
Sampling Distributions.
Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals.
Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis.
Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses.
Simple Linear Regression.
Multiple Regression and Model Building.
Methods for Quality Improvement.
Time Series: Descriptive Analyses, Models, and Forecasting.
Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance.
Nonparametric Statistics.
Categorical Data Analysis.

Appendices.

Basic Counting Rules.

Tables.

Calculation Formulas for Analysis of Variance.

L'auteur - Terry Sincich

University of South Florida

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Parution	11/01/2002
Nb. de pages	1028
Format	20,2 x 25,3
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1854g
Intérieur	2 couleurs
EAN13	9780130282767