For one semester courses in business statistics. A student friendly approach that shows how statistics work in each area of business. Students need a frame of reference when learning statistics, especially when it's not their major. Business Statistics: A First Course teaches students how statistics are used in each functional area of business in a briefer, one semester format. The sixth edition has been updated to reflect the latest data and information, and now includes a new problem solving framework to help guide students through the material.
1. Introduction
2. Organizing and Visualizing Data
3. Numerical Descriptive Measures
4. Basic Probability
5. Discrete Probability Distributions
6. The Normal Distribution
7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
8. Confidence Interval Estimation
9. Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests
10. Two-Sample Tests and One-Way ANOVA
11. Chi-Square Tests
12. Simple Linear Regression
13. Multiple Regression