
Business Statistics: Abridged
Abridged Fifth Edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 16. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-07-710860-1 (ISBN)
Description
Business Statistics, Abridged Fifth Edition offers an introduction to the key concepts essential to an introductory business statistics course. Based on market research, this abridgement has removed six chapters considered to be superfluous leaving a text that more accurately reflects market needs. This abridged edition continues to provide the student with a clear understanding of the core statistical concepts and rich problems to stimulate learning.
More details
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 98 mm
Width: 80 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
3 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-710860-1 (9780077108601)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
The Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University, and is an occasional business commentator on CNN. He earned his B.A. in mathematics and M.S. in operations research from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, and he was awarded his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Oregon. Prior to assuming his current position, Aczel lived and taught in California, Alaska, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. Aczel is the author of 11 books on mathematics, business, and statistics. His best known book, Fermat's Last Theorem, discusses the quest to prove a heretofore unprovable mathematical theorem. The recently published The Riddle of the Compass discusses the invention of the compass.
Professor of quantitative methods at the University of WisconsinParkside, where he has been teaching business statistics and operations management for 21 years. He earned his doctoral and master's degrees in business from Kent State University and received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Before turning to academia, Sounderpandian worked as an engineer for seven years at an aircraft manufacturing company in India.
Professor of quantitative methods at the University of WisconsinParkside, where he has been teaching business statistics and operations management for 21 years. He earned his doctoral and master's degrees in business from Kent State University and received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Before turning to academia, Sounderpandian worked as an engineer for seven years at an aircraft manufacturing company in India.
Content
0. Working with Templates
1. Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
2. Probability
3. Random Variables
4. The Normal Distribution
5. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
6. Confidence Intervals
7. Hypothesis Testing
8. The Comparison of Two Populations
9. Analysis of Variance
10. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation Appendix A: References
Appendix B: Answers to Most of the Odd Numbered Problems
Appendix C: Statistical Tables
1. Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
2. Probability
3. Random Variables
4. The Normal Distribution
5. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
6. Confidence Intervals
7. Hypothesis Testing
8. The Comparison of Two Populations
9. Analysis of Variance
10. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation Appendix A: References
Appendix B: Answers to Most of the Odd Numbered Problems
Appendix C: Statistical Tables