... covers the basic methods of statistical description, statistical inference, decision analysis, and process control that are included in introductory and intermediate level courses in business statistics.
Contents
Analyzing business data -- Statistical presentations and graphical displays -- Describing business data : measures of location -- Describing business data : measures of dispersion -- Probability -- Probability distributions for discrete random variables : binomial, hypergeometric, and poission -- Probability distributions for continuous random variables : normal and exponential -- Sampling distributions and confidence intervals for the mean -- Other confidence intervals -- Testing hypotheses concerning the value of the population mean -- Testing other hypotheses -- Chi-Square test for the analysis of qualitative data -- Analysis of variance -- Linear regression and correlation analysis -- Multiple regression and correlation -- Time series analysis and business forecasting -- Nonparametric statistics -- Decision analysis : payoff tables and decision trees -- Statistical process control .
