Doing Statistics for Business: Data, Inferences and Decision Making
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This text teaches readers the basic techniques for analyzing data to make business decisions. Each chapter of the book begins with a "story". The story tells of a business problem that needs to be solved and describes the data that were collected to help solve the problem. The exercises which are presented in the chapter are tied to that story and are threaded throughout the chapter. The reader is then left to finish the analysis for the story problem. Sample output from Excel, as well as keystroke and menu instructions are featured throughout the book.
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GETTING STARTED.
Introduction: The Role of Statistical Thinking in Management.
The Language of Statistics.
EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS.
Graphical Displays of Data.
Numerical Descriptors of Data.
Analyzing Bivariate Data.
THE KEYS THAT UNLOCK THE DOOR TO INFERENTIAL STATISTICS.
Probability.
Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals.
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS.
Hypothesis Testing: An Introduction.
Inferences: One Population.
Comparing Two Populations.
MODEL BUILDING.
Regression Analysis.
Multiple Regression Models.
Time Series and Forecasting.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS.
Experimental Design and Anova.
The Analysis of Qualitative Data.
Improving and Managing Quality.
Pulling It All Together.
Appendices.
Index.
