The purpose of STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS is to give students, primarily those in the fields of business administration and economics, a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the non-mathematician in mind; the mathematical prerequisite is knowledge of algebra.
Applications of data analysis and statistical methodology are an integral part of the organization and presentation of the text material. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an application setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solution to problems.
Although the book is applications oriented, we have taken care to provide sound methodological development and to use notation that is generally accepted for the topic being covered. Hence, students will find that this text provides good preparation for the study of more advanced statistical material. A revised and updated bibliography to guide further study is included as an appendix.
Chapter 1 Data and Statistics
Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods
Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods
Chapter 4 Introduction to Probability
Chapter 5 Discrete Probability Distributions
Chapter 6 Continuous Probability Distributions
Chapter 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 8 Interval Estimation
Chapter 9 Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 10 Statistical Inference About Means and Proportions With Two Proportions
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