Statistics for Business and Economics

For a one- or two-term course in business statistics.
Designed for students with a background in basic algebra, this best-selling introduction to business statistics emphasizes inference; data collection and analysis are covered extensively, as needed, to evaluate the reported results of statistical studies and to make good business decisions. The authors stress the development of statistical thinking—the assessment of credibility and value of the inferences made from data—both by those who consume and those who produce the information. Numerous case studies, examples, and exercises all draw on real business situations and recent economic events.

Ch.1 Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking
Ch.2 Methods for Describing Sets of Data
Ch.3 Probability
Ch.4 Discrete Random Variables
Ch.5 Continuous Random Variables
Ch.6 Sampling Distributions
Ch.7 Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals
Ch.8 Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis
Ch.9 Inferences Based on a Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses
Ch.10 Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance
Ch.11 The Chi-Square Test and the Analysis of Contingency Tables
Ch.12 Simple Linear Regression
Ch.13 Multiple Regression and Model Building
Ch.14 Methods for Quality Improvement
Ch.15 Time Series: Descriptive Analyses, Models, and Forecasting
Ch.16 Nonparametric Statistics
APPENDIX A Basic Counting Rules
APPENDIX B Tables
APPENDIX C Calculation Formulas for Analysis of variance
SHORT ANSWERS TO SELECTED ODD-NUMBERED EXERCISES
INDEX