Business Statistics in Practice is a modern and practical approach to the first course in business statistics. This approach features case study and example driven discussions of all major business statistics topics. The only prerequiste for this book is high school algebra. In addition, we have endeavored to make this book the most clearly written, motivating, and easy to get through business statistics book in existence. Business Statistics in Practice has five attributes that make it an effective learning tool:
- A consistent theme of business improvement through statistical analysis.
- A unique use of case studies that integrates different statistical areas.
- A real emphasis on the study of varation that stresses that the analysis of individual population observations is as important as the analysis of population means.
- A flexible topic flow that facilitates different topic choices and encourages different teaching approaches. In particular, since many courses give quite different emphases to probability, hypothesis testing, regression and statistical modeling, nonparametric statistics, and quality control, this book gives great flexibility with respect to how, when, and if to cover these topics.
- A modern use of the statistical capabilities of the software packages Excel, MINITAB, and SAS that stresses statistical interpretation and that reflects the use of these packages in the real world.
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Business Statistics
Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 3 Probability
Chapter 4 Discrete Random Varibles
Chapter 5 Continuous Random Variables
Chapter 6 Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7 Confidence Intervals
Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 9 Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples
Chapter 10 Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance
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