Learning Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel 2000
Published on 12. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
449 pages
978-0-13-030878-8 (ISBN)
Description
This great supplemental text is appropriate for business statistics students at both the undergraduate and MBA level who are not experts in the use of Excel.
This text is designed to reflect the important changes in the teaching of statistics brought about by the use of computers. It takes advantage of the ability of computers to help students understand statistical methods. It uses a straightforward, step-by-step approach, and uses the computer both as a tool for solving statistical problems and as pedagogical device to help students understand statistical concepts.
This text is designed to reflect the important changes in the teaching of statistics brought about by the use of computers. It takes advantage of the ability of computers to help students understand statistical methods. It uses a straightforward, step-by-step approach, and uses the computer both as a tool for solving statistical problems and as pedagogical device to help students understand statistical concepts.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
733 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-030878-8 (9780130308788)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Introduction to Excel.
2. Descriptive Statistics.
3. Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions.
4. The Binomial Distributions.
5. The Normal Distribution.
6. The Sampling Distribution of the Mean.
7. Confidence Intervals on a Population Mean.
8. Understanding Hypothesis Testing.
9. Hypothesis Testing of a Population Mean.
10. Inferences on a Population Proportion.
11. Inferences on a Population Variance.
12. Inferences on Two Population Means.
13. Analysis of Variance.
14. Simple Linear Regression.
15. Multiple Regression.
Appendix A-Obtaining the Data.
Appendix B-Setting Up the Analysis Tools.
Appendix C-Installing the Learning Business Statistics Add-In.
Appendix D-Statistical Functions and Analysis Tools.
Appendix E-Answers to Selected Exercises.
Appendix F-Storing a Large File on a Diskette.
2. Descriptive Statistics.
3. Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions.
4. The Binomial Distributions.
5. The Normal Distribution.
6. The Sampling Distribution of the Mean.
7. Confidence Intervals on a Population Mean.
8. Understanding Hypothesis Testing.
9. Hypothesis Testing of a Population Mean.
10. Inferences on a Population Proportion.
11. Inferences on a Population Variance.
12. Inferences on Two Population Means.
13. Analysis of Variance.
14. Simple Linear Regression.
15. Multiple Regression.
Appendix A-Obtaining the Data.
Appendix B-Setting Up the Analysis Tools.
Appendix C-Installing the Learning Business Statistics Add-In.
Appendix D-Statistical Functions and Analysis Tools.
Appendix E-Answers to Selected Exercises.
Appendix F-Storing a Large File on a Diskette.