Statistics for Business & Economics, Global Edition, 13th edition

Published by Pearson (9 January 2018) © 2018

  • James T McClave University of Florida
  • P George Benson
  • Terry T Sincich University of South Florida

Title overview

For courses in Introductory Business Statistics.

Now in its 13th Edition, Statistics for Business and Economics introduces statistics in the context of contemporary business. Emphasising statistical literacy in thinking, the text applies its concepts with real data and uses technology to develop a deeper conceptual understanding. Examples, activities, and case studies foster active learning in the classroom while emphasising intuitive concepts of probability and teaching students to make informed business decisions. The 13th Edition continues to highlight the importance of ethical behaviour in collecting, interpreting, and reporting on data, while also providing a wealth of new and updated exercises and case studies.

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Table of contents

  • 1. Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking
  • 2. Methods for Describing Sets of Data
  • 3. Probability
  • 4. Random Variables and Probability Distributions
  • 5. Sampling Distributions
  • 6. Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals
  • 7. Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypotheses
  • 8. Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses
  • 9. Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance
  • 10. Categorical Data Analysis
  • 11. Simple Linear Regression
  • 12. Multiple Regression and Model Building
  • 13. Methods for Quality Improvement: Statistical Process Control (Available Online)
  • 14. Time Series: Descriptive Analyses, Models, and Forecasting (Available Online)
  • 15. Nonparametric Statistics (Available Online)

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