Complete Business Statistics with Student CD
6th Edition
Published on 16. April 2005
Book
Mixed media product
978-0-07-124416-9 (ISBN)
Description
Offering diverse, real-world problems drawn from a wide variety of international sources, including finance, marketing, government, sports, retail, and real estate, the book challenges students to develop a realistic sense of how statistics can be applied in business situations. Excel is integrated throughout.
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Edition
6th edition
Language
English
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United States
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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ISBN-13
978-0-07-124416-9 (9780071244169)
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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.
Content
Amir Aczel and Jayavel Sounderpandian, Complete Business Statistics 6/e Table of Contents0. Working with Templates1. Introduction and Descriptive Statistics2. Probability3 Random Variables4. The Normal Distribution5. Sampling and Sampling Distributions6. Confidence Intervals7. Hypothesis Testing8. The Comparison of Two Populations9 Analysis of Variance10. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation11. Multiple Regression and Correlation12. Time Series, Forecasting, and Index Numbers13. Quality Control and Improvement14. Nonparametric Methods and Chi-Square Test15. Bayesian Statistics and Decision AnalysisAppendicesA: ReferencesB: Answers to Most Odd-Numbered ProblemsC: Statistical TablesOn the CD16. Sampling Methods17. Multivariate Analysis