Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
Published in December 1996
Book
Hardback
870 pages
978-0-07-114911-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a comprehensive survey of statistical tools and methods presented in a step-by-step format and illustrated with examples. There is expanded coverage of graphs and their interpretation, and chapters on correlation and regression analysis. Quality control has been integrated throughout the text. The book also features spreadsheet examples and case studies.
More details
Edition
International 9 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1804 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-114911-2 (9780071149112)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
What is statistics?; summarizing data - frequence distributions and graphic presentation describing data - measure of central tendency; measures of dispersion and skewness; a survey of probability concepts; discrete probability distributions; the normal probability distribution; sampling methods and sampling distributions; test of hypotheses - large samples; test of hypotheses - small samples; analysis of variance; linear regression and correlation; multiple regression and correlation; nonparametric methods - chi-square applications; nonparametric methods - analysis of ranked data; statistical quality control; index numbers; time series and forecasting; an introduction to decision making under uncertainity.