Statistics for Business and Economics
Cengage Learning EMEA (Publisher)
Published on 5. December 2006
Book
Mixed media product
860 pages
978-1-84480-313-2 (ISBN)
Description
The definitive introduction to statistics by Anderson, Sweeney, Williams has now been expertly adapted for business and economics students across the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Adapting authors, Jim Freeman and Eddie Shoesmith, have taken the classic rigour and rich pedagogy of the United States text and carefully blended it with the latest applications and technology to provide a truly complete introduction to statistics. Students will engage seamlessly with the material as all Case Problems, Statistics in Practice features and examples throughout the text have been thoroughly revised using localised material, while a new full-colour design using photographs brings the subject to life. Hundreds of Exercises are included with the text while an accompanying CD-Rom contains over 100 unique Data Sets to ensure students and lecturers are provided with a complete learning package.
The definitive introduction to statistics by Anderson, Sweeney, Williams has now been expertly adapted for business and economics students across the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Adapting authors, Jim Freeman and Eddie Shoesmith, have taken the classic rigour and rich pedagogy of the United States text and carefully blended it with the latest applications and technology to provide a truly complete introduction to statistics. Students will engage seamlessly with the material as all Case Problems, Statistics in Practice features and examples throughout the text have been thoroughly revised using localised material, while a new full-colour design using photographs brings the subject to life. Hundreds of Exercises are included with the text while an accompanying CD-Rom contains over 100 unique Data Sets to ensure students and lecturers are provided with a complete learning package.
The definitive introduction to statistics by Anderson, Sweeney, Williams has now been expertly adapted for business and economics students across the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Adapting authors, Jim Freeman and Eddie Shoesmith, have taken the classic rigour and rich pedagogy of the United States text and carefully blended it with the latest applications and technology to provide a truly complete introduction to statistics. Students will engage seamlessly with the material as all Case Problems, Statistics in Practice features and examples throughout the text have been thoroughly revised using localised material, while a new full-colour design using photographs brings the subject to life. Hundreds of Exercises are included with the text while an accompanying CD-Rom contains over 100 unique Data Sets to ensure students and lecturers are provided with a complete learning package.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 258 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1660 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84480-313-2 (9781844803132)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
David Anderson | Thomas Arthur Williams | Dennis Sweeney
Statistics for Business and Economics
Book
05/2008
10th Edition
South-Western
€99.22
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Content
1. Data and Statistics. 2. Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations. 3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures. 4. Introduction to Probability. 5. Discrete Probability Distributions. 6. Continuous Probability Distributions. 7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions. 8. Interval Estimation. 9. Hypothesis Tests. 10. Statistical Inference about Means and Proportions with Two Populations. 11. Inferences about Population Variances. 12. Tests of Goodness of Fit and Independence. 13. Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design. 14. Simple Linear Regression. 15. Multiple Regression. 16. Regression Analysis: Model Building. 17. Index Numbers. 18. Forecasting. 19. Non-parametric Methods. 20. Statistical Methods for Quality Control. 21. Decision Analysis. 22. Sample Surveys On CD. Appendix A References and Bibliography. Appendix B Tables. Appendix C Summation Notation. Appendix D Answers to Exercises. Glossary. Index.