Applied Statistics
Improving Business Processes
Published in September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
980 pages
978-0-07-114907-5 (ISBN)
Description
Suitable for undergraduate business statistics courses, this text focuses on improving business processes by using statistical techniques needed to facilitate effective decision making. It offers explanations of concepts, provides case studies and examples that reflect real applications of statistics, and covers probability and probability distributions. The book also includes use of P-values and rejection points in hypothesis testing and places a strong emphasis on forecasting, regression and modelling.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
photographs, tables
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
2800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-114907-5 (9780071149075)
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Bruce L. Bowerman | Richard T. O'Connell | Hand
Business Statistics in Practice
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03/2001
2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)
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Content
An introduction to business statistics; descriptive statistics; probability and random variables; probability distribution; sampling distributions; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; statistical inferences based on two samples; introduction to quality improvement; process improvement using control charts; simple linear regression analysis; multiple regression model building and model diagnostics; time series forecasting; experimental design and analysis of variance; chi-square tests. Appendices: statistical tables; using matrix algebra to perform regression calculation.