The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics
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Look at your data
Now available with Macmillan's online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (PSBE) helps students develop a working knowledge of data production and interpretation in a business and economics context, giving them the practical tools they need to make data-informed, real-world business decisions from the first day of class.
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George P. McCabe is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Science and a Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. Professor McCabe is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Statistical Association. He has served on the editorial boards of several statistics journals, has consulted with many major corporations, and has testified as an expert witness on the use of statistics.
Layth C. Alwan in Associate Professor of Business Statistics and Operations Management, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Professor Alwan is an author of many research articles related to statistical process control and business forecasting. He has consulted for many leading companies on statistical issues related to quality, forecasting, and operations/supply chain management applications. He is the recipient of several teaching awards, including Business School Teacher of the Year and Executive M.B.A. Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
Bruce A. Craig is Professor of Statistics and Director of the Statistical Consulting Service at Purdue University. He is an active member of the American Statistical Association and was chair of its section on Statistical Consulting in 2009. Professor Craig has served on the editorial board of several statistical journals and has been a member of several data and safety monitoring boards, including Purdue's IRB.
Content
CHAPTER 1 Examining Distributions
CHAPTER 2 Examining Relationships
CHAPTER 3 Producing Data
CHAPTER 4 Probability: The Study of Randomness
CHAPTER 5 Random Variables and Probability Distributions
CHAPTER 6 Sampling Distributions
CHAPTER 7 Introduction to Inference
CHAPTER 8 Inference for MeansCHAPTER 9 One-Way Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER 10 Inference for Proportions
CHAPTER 11 Inference for Categorical Data
CHAPTER 12 Inference for Regression
CHAPTER 13 Multiple Regression
CHAPTER 14 Time Series Forecasting
The Core book includes Chapters 1 - 14 . Chapters 15 - 18 are
individual optional Companion Chapters and can be found at
www.macmillanlearning.com/psbe5e .
CHAPTER 15 Statistics for Quality: Control and Capability
CHAPTER 16 Two-Way Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER 17 Nonparametric TestsCHAPTER 18 Logistic Regression