Elementary Business Statistics
The Modern Approach
6th Edition
Published in January 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
848 pages
978-0-13-259821-7 (ISBN)
Description
Based on years of classroom experience, this text explores the modern approach to decision making in the face of uncertainty. As a presentation of modern business statistics at an elementary level of mathematical difficulty, it emphasizes concepts and ideas, balances theory and applications, and provides motivation for the study of fundamentally important statistical techniques. Introducing substantial changes in content, organization, language, notation and format, the sixth edition features over 1,130 tested, new and revised exercises.
More details
Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
bibliography, statistical tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
1450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-259821-7 (9780132598217)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Summarizing data - frequency distributions; summarizing data - statistical descriptions; possibilities, probabilities and expectations; some rules of probability; decision analysis; probability distributions; Bayes' theorem and the revision of probabilities; the normal distribution; sampling and sampling distributions; decision making - inferences about means; decision making - inferences about standard deviations; decision making - inferences about proportions; decision making - analysis of variance; decision making - nonparametric tests; decision making - linear regression; decision making - correlation; quality control; index numbers; time-series analysis; planning business research.