Introductory Statistics for Management and Economics
3rd Edition
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Hardback
912 pages
978-0-534-91693-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students taking courses in statistics in departments of economics and business studies.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Weight
1820 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-91693-0 (9780534916930)
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James L. Kenkel
Introductory Statistics for Management and Economics
Book
11/1995
4th Edition
Brooks/Cole
€123.49
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Content
What statistics is all about? Introduction to sampling theory. Summarizing data in tables and graphs. Summary statistics: measures of location and dispersion. Introduction to probability. Discrete probability distributions. Some important discrete distributions. Some useful continuous probability distributions. Sampling theory and some important sampling distributions. Estimation and the construction of confidence intervals. Hypothesis testing. Tests of hypotheses involving two populations. Chi-square tests. Analysis of variance. Regression and correlation. Multiple regression models. Special topics in multiple regression. Residual analysis and violations of the basic assumptions. Time series analysis I: estimation of the trend component. Time series analysis II: estimation of the seasonal component. Some non-parametric tests. Index numbers. Decision theory. Appendix: statistical tables.