TY - BOOK AU - Stine, Robert A. TI - Statistics for business: decision making and analysis SN - 9789353940645 U1 - 519.502465 PY - 2022/// CY - Noida PB - Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd. KW - Commercial statistics KW - Business planning KW - Industrial management--Statistical methods KW - Problem solving--Statistical methods N1 - Table of Content I. Variation 1. Introduction 2. Data 3. Describing Categorical Data 4. Describing Numerical Data 5. Association Between Categorical Variables 6. Association Between Quantitative Variables II. Probability 7. Probability 8. Conditional Probability 9. Random Variables 10. Association Between Random Variables 11. Probability Models for Counts 12. The Normal Probability Model III. Inference 13. Samples and Surveys 14. Sampling Variation and Quality 15. Confidence Intervals 16. Statistical Tests 17. Comparison 18. Inference for Counts IV. Regression Models 19. Linear Patterns 20. Curved Patterns 21. The Simple Regression Model 22. Regression Diagnostics 23. Multiple Regression 24. Building Regression Models 25. Categorical Explanatory Variables 26. Analysis of Variance 27. Time Series N2 - The 3rd Edition of Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis emphasizes an application-based approach, in which students learn how to work with data to make decisions. In this contemporary presentation of business statistics, students learn how to approach business decisions through a 4M Analytics decision making strategy-motivation, method, mechanics and message-to better understand how a business context motivates the statistical process and how the results inform a course of action. Each chapter includes hints on using Excel, Minitab Express, and JMP for calculations, pointing the student in the right direction to get started with analysis of data ER -