Business statistics in practice /
Bowerman, Bruce L.
Business statistics in practice / Bruce L. Bowerman, Richard T. O’Connell, Emily S. Murphree ; with major contributions by Steven C. Huchendorf, Dawn C. Porter, Patrick J. Schur. - 6th ed. - New York, NY : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011. - 899 p. : ill., (some col.) ; 29 cm. - The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series: operations and decision sciences .
Includes indexes.
1. An Introduction to Business Statistics -- 2. Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods -- 3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods -- 4. Probability -- 5. Discrete Random Variables -- 6. Continuous Random Variables -- 7. Sampling Distributions -- 8. Confidence Intervals -- 9. Hypothesis Testing -- 10. Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples -- 11. Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance -- 12. Chi-Square Tests -- 13. Simple Linear Regression Analysis -- 14. Multiple Regression -- 15. Model Building and Model Diagnostics -- 16. Time Series Forecasting -- 17. Process Improvement Using Control Charts -- 18. Nonparametric Methods -- 19. Decision Theory
The new edition of Business Statistics in Practice provides a modern, practical, and unique framework for teaching the first course in business statistics. This framework features case study and example-driven discussions of all basic business statistics topics. In addition, the authors have rewritten many of the discussions in this edition and have explained concepts more simply from first principles. The only prerequisite for this text is high school algebra.
9780071220651 0071220658
2009046163
Commercial statistics.
Statistics.
519.502465
Business statistics in practice / Bruce L. Bowerman, Richard T. O’Connell, Emily S. Murphree ; with major contributions by Steven C. Huchendorf, Dawn C. Porter, Patrick J. Schur. - 6th ed. - New York, NY : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011. - 899 p. : ill., (some col.) ; 29 cm. - The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series: operations and decision sciences .
Includes indexes.
1. An Introduction to Business Statistics -- 2. Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods -- 3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods -- 4. Probability -- 5. Discrete Random Variables -- 6. Continuous Random Variables -- 7. Sampling Distributions -- 8. Confidence Intervals -- 9. Hypothesis Testing -- 10. Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples -- 11. Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance -- 12. Chi-Square Tests -- 13. Simple Linear Regression Analysis -- 14. Multiple Regression -- 15. Model Building and Model Diagnostics -- 16. Time Series Forecasting -- 17. Process Improvement Using Control Charts -- 18. Nonparametric Methods -- 19. Decision Theory
The new edition of Business Statistics in Practice provides a modern, practical, and unique framework for teaching the first course in business statistics. This framework features case study and example-driven discussions of all basic business statistics topics. In addition, the authors have rewritten many of the discussions in this edition and have explained concepts more simply from first principles. The only prerequisite for this text is high school algebra.
9780071220651 0071220658
2009046163
Commercial statistics.
Statistics.
519.502465