Statistics for Business：Decision Making and Analysis (第二版)

　　In addition to providing cases and real data to demonstrate real business situations, this text provides resources to support understanding and engagement.

　　1. A successful problem-solving framework in the 4-M Examples (Motivation, Method, Mechanics, Message) model a clear outline for solving problems.

　　2. New What Do You Think questions give students an opportunity to stop and check their understanding as they read.

　　3. New learning objectives guide students through each chapter and help them to review major goals.

　　4. Software Hints provide instructions for using the most up-to-date technology packages.

　　5. The Second Edition also includes expanded coverage and instruction of Excel(R) 2010 and the XLSTAT(TM) add-in.

作者簡介

Robert Stine

　　現職：University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School

Dean Foster

　　現職：University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School

PART I: VARIATION
Ch1 Introduction
Ch2 Data
Ch3 Describing Categorical Data
Ch4 Describing Numerical Data
Ch5 Association between Categorical Variables
Ch6 Association between Quantitative Variables

PART II: PROBABILITY
Ch7 Probability
Ch8 Conditional Probability
Ch9 Random Variables
Ch10 Association between Random Variables
Ch11 Probability Models for Counts
Ch12 The Normal Probability Model

PART III: INFERENCE
Ch13 Samples and Surveys
Ch14 Sampling Variation and Quality
Ch15 Confidence Intervals
Ch16 Statistical Tests
Ch17 Comparison
Ch18 Inference for Counts

PART IV: REGRESSION MODELS
Ch19 Linear Patterns
Ch20 Curved Patterns
Ch21 The Simple Regression Model
Ch22 Regression Diagnostics
Ch23 Multiple Regression
Ch24 Building Regression Models
Ch25 Categorical Explanatory Variables
Ch26 Analysis of Variance
Ch27 Time Series