Basic business statistics : Concepts and application (Pearson international Ed.) with CD-ROM

Preface

1 Introduction and Data Collection

2 Presenting Data in Tables and Charts

3 Numerical Descriptive Measures

4 Basic Probability

5 Some Important Discrete Probability Distributions

6 The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions

7 Sampling Distributions and Sampling

8 Confidence Interval Estimation

9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests

10 Two-Sample Tests

11 Analysis of Variance

12 Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests

13 Simple Linear Regression

14 Introduction to Multiple Regression

15 Multiple Regression Model Building

16 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers

17 Decision Making

18 Statistical Applications in Quality Management

Appendices A F

Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Problems

Index

Student CD-ROM Topics

5.6 Using the Poisson Distribution to Approximate the Binomial DistributionCD5-1

7.6 Sampling from Finite PopulationsCD7-1

8.7 Estimation and Sample Size Determination for Finite PopulationsCD8-1

12.10 Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Tests

15.6 Influence Analysis

16.9 The Holt-Winters Method for Trend-Fitting and Forecasting