TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francis, J. Joseph
TI  - Business statistics
SN  - 9789353502195
U1  - 519.5 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cengage Learning India Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - Commercial statistics
KW  - Statistics
N1  - Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics

Chapter 2 Understanding, Organising and Presenting Data

Chapter 3 Measures of Central Tendency

Chapter 4 Measures of Dispersion

Chapter 5 Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis

Chapter 6 Basic Concepts of Probability

Chapter 7 Discrete Probability Distribution

Chapter 8 Continuous Probability Distribution

Chapter 9 Sampling and Sampling Distribution

Chapter 10 Estimation and Confidence Intervals

Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 12 Statistical Inference for Single Population using Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 13 Statistical Inference about Two Populations using Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 14 Statistical Inference about Variance of Two Populations using F-Distribution

Chapter 15 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments

Chapter 16 Chi-Square Tests and Other Non-Parametric Tests

Chapter 17 Correlation and Simple Regression

Chapter 18 Multiple Regression and Model Building

Chapter 19 Index Numbers

Chapter 20 Forecasting and Time Series

Chapter 21 Statistical Methods for Quality Management

Chapter 22 Statistical Decision Theory
N2  - Business Statistics introduces the students to the fundamentals of and various concepts related to statistics that are helpful in making business decisions. Data are the fulcrum of the field of business statistics and this book provides the conceptual clarity for understanding data. The use of data for decision making in business has gained tremendous momentum. In order to make the learning process easy and interesting, many examples are given in the form of fictitious and real-life business anecdotes. At the end of each chapter, various exercises are given to help the students become adept at using data for decision making.  

Numerous examples illustrate the use of software tools like MS Excel, SPSS and RStudio with detailed steps involved. Real-time cases of Indian companies with actual data sourced from their websites have been used for better understanding of the concepts. The aim of this book is to make the learning process as interesting and simple as possible
ER  -