A Course in Business Statistics
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1988
Book
Hardback
832 pages
978-0-534-91488-2 (ISBN)
Description
This edition of a useful business text features realistic business oriented studies in each chapter and the majority of examples and exercises are taken from published articles and cite real data. The second edition has a new chapter on quality control, and sampling distribution; expanded treatment of analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis; and a reduction in the coverage of probability - to remove all non-essential material. A more thorough discussion of statistical software packages includes MINITAB, SAS and SPSS. This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students on business studies and management courses with a statistics element.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
1510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-91488-2 (9780534914882)
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Previous edition
William Mendenhall | Robert J. Beaver | Barbara M. Beaver
A Course in Business Statistics
Book
01/1996
4th Edition
Duxbury Press
€63.33
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Content
What is statistics? Describing sets of data. Probability and discrete probability distributions. Continuous probability distribution. Sampling distributions. Large sample point estimation. Large sample tests of hypotheses. Inference from small samples. The analysis of variance. The chi-square goodness of fit test. Linear regression and correlation. Multiple regression analysis. Time series and index numbers. Sampling methods. Non-parametric statistics. Quality control. Decision analysis.