Business Statistics I Essentials
Published on 1. May 2014
157 pages
978-0-7386-7143-7 (ISBN)
Description
REA's Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Business Statistics I includes descriptive statistics, introduction to probability, probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, interval estimation, and hypothesis testing.
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W.Kent Moore
Business Statistics: v.1
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12/1991
Prentice Hall & IBD
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Definition of Statistics
- 1.2 Statistics in Business
- 1.3 Types of Statistical Data
- 1.4 Sources of Statistical Data
- 2 Descriptive Statistics
- 2.1 Frequency Distributions and Graphs/Charts
- 2.2 Measures of Central Tendency
- 2.3 Measures of Variation/Dispersion
- 2.4 Comparison of Measures
- 3 Introduction to Probability
- 3.1 What is Probability?
- 3.2 Properties of Probabilities
- 3.3 Methods of Computing Probabilities
- 3.4 Bayesian Decision Analysis
- 3.5 Probability Tables
- 3.6 Probability Tree Diagrams
- 4 Probability Distributions
- 4.1 Random Variables
- 4.2 Discrete Probability Distributions
- 4.3 Continuous Probability Distributions
- 5 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
- 5.1 Types of Samples
- 5.2 Relationship Between Sample Data and Population Values
- 5.3 Sampling Error
- 5.4 Sampling Distribution of the Mean
- 5.5 Sampling Distribution of the Proportion
- 5.6 The Central Limit Theorem
- 6 Interval Estimation
- 6.1 Interval Estimation of a Population Mean
- 6.2 Interval Estimation of a Population Proportion
- 6.3 Determining the Size of the Sample
- 7 Hypothesis Testing
- 7.1 Reasons For Testing Hypotheses
- 7.2 Steps in Hypothesis Testing
- 7.3 Hypothesis Tests on Means
- 7.4 Hypothesis Tests on Proportions
- 7.5 Type I and Type II Errors
- Appendix
- Area Under the Curve for the Standard Normal Distribution
- Area Under the Curve for the Student's t-Distribution
- Proportions of Area for the X2 Distribution
- Critical Values of F
