"Every business area relies on anunderstanding of statistics to succeed. Statistics for Businessand Economics by Carlos Cortinhas and Ken Black shows studentsthat the proper application of statistics in the business worldgoes handinhand with good decision making. Every statistical toolpresented in this book has a business application set in a globalcontext and the many learning features and easy to use structurewill engage and reassure each business statistic student." - from back cover.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION --- 1 Introduction to statistics --- 2 Charts and graphs --- 3 Descriptive statistics --- 4 Probability --- UNIT II DISTRIBUTIONS AND SAMPLING --- 5 Discrete distributions --- 6 Continuous distributions --- 7 Sampling and sampling distributions --- UNIT III MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT POPULATION PARAMETERS --- 8 Statistical inference: estimation for single populations --- 9 Statistical inference: hypothesis testing for single populations --- 10 Statistical inferences about two populations --- 11 Analysis of variance and design of experiments --- UNIT IV REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING --- 12 Simple regression analysis and correlation --- 13 Multiple regression analysis --- 14 Building multiple regression models --- 15 Time-series forecasting and index numbers --- UNIT V CATEGORICAL DATA AND NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS --- 16 Analysis of categorical data --- 17 Non-parametric statistics --- APPENDICES --- A Tables --- B Answers to selected odd-numbered quantitative problems --- GLOSSARY --- INDEX --- WEBSITE MATERIALS --- 18 Statistical quality control --- 19 Decision analysis..
