Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach with Student CD
by Groebner, David F.; Shannon, Patrick W.; Fry, Phillip C.; Smith, Kent D.Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover w/CD
Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
For the 1 or 2 semester course in Business Statistics. This comprehensive, 17 chapter hardcover text builds student confidence by incorporating a step-by-step system for examples, exercises, and special review sections. This step-by-step framework allows students to learn by example, practice with extensive exercises that step-up in level of difficulty, and solidify their understanding of the concepts with special review sections as they prepare for their exams. It presents descriptive and inferential statistics with a rich assortment of business examples and real data with an emphasis on decision-making. There is emphasis on using statistical software as a tool, (featuring Excel and Minitab) with many examples presented in a software environment. A briefer version is also available called a Course in Business Statistics 4e.
Table of Contents
| The Where, Why, and How of Data Collection | |
| What Is Business Statistics? Tools and Techniques for Collecting Data | |
| Samples and Sampling Techniques | |
| Types and Data Measurement Levels | |
| Your Computer | |
| Graphs, Charts, and Tables Describing Your Data | |
| Frequency Distributions and Histograms | |
| Frequency Distributions | |
| Charts and Pie Charts | |
| Charts and Scatter Diagrams | |
| AJ's Fitness Center | |
| Westbrook Graphic Arts | |
| Describing Data Using Numerical Measures | |
| Measures of Central Tendency of Variation the Mean and Standard Deviation Together | |
| Wilson Corporation | |
| Holcome Financial Planners | |
| AJ's Fitness Center | |
| Using Probability and Discrete Probability Distributions | |
| The Basics of Probability | |
| Rules of Probability | |
| Probability Distributions | |
| Binomial Probability Distribution | |
| Poisson Probability Distribution | |
| Great Air Commuter Service | |
| Rutledg Collections | |
| Let's Make a Deal | |
| Belko Equipment Company | |
| Continuous Probability Distributions | |
| The Normal Probability Distribution | |
| Continuous Probability Distributions | |
| East Mercy | |
| Introduction to Sampling Distributions | |
| Sampling Error What It Is and Why It Happens | |
| Basics of Sampling Distributions | |
| Distribution of a Proportion | |
| Carpita Bottling Company | |
| Truck Safety Inspection | |
| Houston Nut and Candy Company | |
| High Country | |
| Estimating Population Values | |
| Point and Confidence Interval Estimates the Appropriate Sample Size a Population Proportion | |
| Duro Industries, Inc | |
| Management Solutions, Inc | |
| Introduction to Hypothesis Testing | |
| Hypotheses Tests for Means | |
| II Errors | |
| Tests for Proportions | |
| Tests for the Variances | |
| Campbell Brewery, Inc., Part 1 | |
| Hypothesis Testing and Estimation For Two Population Parameters | |
| Hypothesis Tests for Two Population Variances | |
| Tests and Estimation for Two Population Means and Hypothesis Tests for Two Population Proportions | |
| Green Valley Assembly Company | |
| U-Need-It Rental Agency | |
| Wilson Bearing Company | |
| Analysis of Variance | |
| One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
| Complete Block Analysis of Variance | |
| Factor Analysis with Replication | |
| Consumer Information Association | |
| West Coast Bell System | |
| Introduction to Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis | |
| Correlation | |
| Linear Regression Analysis for Regression Analysis | |
| Alamar Industries | |
| Continental Trucking | |
| Multiple Regression Analysis and Model Building | |
| Introduction to Multiple Regression Analysis | |
| Qualitative Independent Variables | |
| With Nonlinear Relationships | |
| Regression the Aptness of the Model | |
| Dynamic Scales, Inc | |
| Introduction to Quality and Statistical Process Control | |
| Quality Management and Tools for Process Improvement to Statistical Process Control Charts | |
| Izbar Precision Casters, Inc | |
| Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Contingency Analysis | |
| Introduction to Goodness-of-Fit Tests to Contingency Analysis | |
| American Oil Company | |
| Bentford Electronics, Part 1 | |
| Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics | |
| Testing for Randomness Using the Runs Test | |
| Tests for Two Population Centers | |
| -Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
| Bentford Electronics, Part 2 | |
| Analyzing and Forecasting Time-Series Data | |
| Introduction to Forecasting and Time-Series Analysis | |
| -Based Forecasting Techniques | |
| Using Smoothing Methods | |
| Park Falls Chamber of Commerce | |
| The St Companies | |
| Wagner Machine Works | |
| Introduction to Decision Analysis | |
| Decision Making Environments | |
| Criteria of Uncertainty | |
| Tree Analysis | |
| Preference Attitudes and Functions | |
| Rockstone International | |
| Hadden Materials and Supplies, Inc., Part | |
| Hadden Materials and Supplies, Inc., Part 2 | |
| Answers to Select Problems | |
| Appendixes | |
| Random Numbers Table | |
| Binomial Distribution Table | |
| Poisson Probability Distribution Table | |
| Standard Normal Distribution Table | |
| Exponential Distribution Table | |
| Values of for Selected Probabilities | |
| Values of X for Selected Probabilities | |
| F-Distribution Table | |
| Critical Values of Hartley's Fmax Test | |
| Distribution of the Studentized Range | |
| Critical Values of in the Runs Table | |
| Mann-Whitney U Test Probabilities | |
| Mann-Whitney U Test Critical Values | |
| Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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