Business Statistics, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (July 15, 2020) © 2020

  • Robert A. Donnelly Goldey-Beacom College

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Title overview

Business Statistics was written in a conversational tone designed to reduce the level of anxiety that you may experience when taking a statistics course. The author takes a straightforward approach that clearly explains each concept and why it's important, directly to the reader.

The 3rd Edition features an abundance of comments in the margins that clarify topics, and a variety of updated applications and Your Turn practice opportunities in each chapter. With these, you'll see business statistics in action, both in the classroom and the world around you.

Table of contents

  1. An Introduction to Business Statistics
  2. Displaying Descriptive Statistics
  3. Calculating Descriptive Statistics
  4. Introduction to Probabilities
  5. Discrete Probability Distributions
  6. Continuous Probability Distributions
  7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
  8. Confidence Intervals
  9. Hypothesis Testing for a Single Population
  10. Hypothesis Tests Comparing Two Populations
  11. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Procedures
  12. Chi-Square Tests
  13. Hypothesis Tests for the Population Variance
  14. Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
  15. Multiple Regression and Model Building
  16. Forecasting
  17. Decision Analysis (online)
  18. Nonparametric Statistics (online)

APPENDICES

  1. Tables
  2. Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Problems

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