Business statistics: a first course
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd. 2020 Edition: 7thDescription: xxi, 594 pISBN: 9789332578951Subject(s): Commercial statistics | Industrial management--Statistical methods | Statistical decisionDDC classification: 519.5 Summary: The world of business statistics has grown larger, expanding into and combining with other
disciplines. And, in a reprise of something that occurred a generation ago, new fields of study -
this time with names such as informatics, data analytics, and decision science - have emerged.
The seventh edition of Business Statistics presents a comprehensive study of all these
developments while retaining the rich pedagogy and style of the earlier editions.
The guiding philosophy of the book has been to help students see the relevance of statistics in
their own careers by providing examples drawn from the functional areas in which they may be
specializing. The cases and learnings will give students ample practice in understanding how to
apply statistics to business and to familiarize students with the use of spreadsheet and statistical
software.
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Table of Content
Table of content:
1 Defining and Collecting Data
2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables
3 Numerical Descriptive Measures
4 Basic Probability
5 Discrete Probability Distributions
6 The Normal Distribution
7 Sampling Distributions
8 Confidence Interval Estimation
9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests
10 Two-Sample Tests and ANOVA
11 Chi-Square Tests
12 Simple Linear Regression
13 Multiple Regression
14 Statistical Applications in Quality Management (online)
15 Decision Analysis (online)
16 Forecasting (online)
The world of business statistics has grown larger, expanding into and combining with other
disciplines. And, in a reprise of something that occurred a generation ago, new fields of study -
this time with names such as informatics, data analytics, and decision science - have emerged.
The seventh edition of Business Statistics presents a comprehensive study of all these
developments while retaining the rich pedagogy and style of the earlier editions.
The guiding philosophy of the book has been to help students see the relevance of statistics in
their own careers by providing examples drawn from the functional areas in which they may be
specializing. The cases and learnings will give students ample practice in understanding how to
apply statistics to business and to familiarize students with the use of spreadsheet and statistical
software.
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