Business Statistics
ISBN: 9780321426598 | 0321426592
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover w/CD
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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Normal 0 false false false Professors Norean Sharpe (Babson College), Dick De Veaux (Williams College), and Paul Velleman (Cornell University) have teamed up to provide an innovative new textbook for business statistics. These authors have taught at the finest business schools, and draw on their consulting experience at leading companies to show readers how statistical thinking is vital to modern decision making. Managers make better business decisions when they understand statistics, andBusiness Statisticsgives readers the statistical tools an... MORE
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| Exploring And Collecting Data | |
| Statistics and Variation | |
| Data | |
| What Are Data? | |
| Variable Types | |
| Where, How, and When | |
| Surveys and Sampling | |
| Three Ideas of Sampling | |
| A Census-Does it Make Sense? | |
| Populations and Parameters | |
| Simple Ran... MORE | |
| Other Sample Designs | |
| Defining the Population | |
| The Valid Survey | |
| Displaying and Describing Categorical Data | |
| The Three Rules of Data Analysis | |
| Frequency Tables | |
| Charts | |
| Contingency Tables | |
| Randomness and Probability | |
| Random Phenomena and Probability | |
| The Non-existent Law of Averages | |
| Different Types of Probability | |
| Probability Rules | |
| Joint Probability and Contingency Tables | |
| Conditional Probability | |
| Constructing Contingency Tables | |
| Displaying and Describing Quantitative Data | |
| Displaying Distributions | |
| Shape | |
| Center | |
| Spread of the Distribution | |
| Shape, Center, and Spread-A Summary | |
| Five-Number Summary and Boxplots | |
| Comparing Groups | |
| Identifying Outliers | |
| Standardizing | |
| Time Series Plots | |
| Transforming Skewed Data | |
| Understanding Data And Distributions | |
| Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation | |
| Looking at Scatterplots | |
| Assigning Roles to Variables in Scatterplots | |
| Understanding Correlation | |
| Straightening Scatterplots | |
| Lurking Variables and Causation | |
| Linear Regression | |
| The Linear Model | |
| Correlation and the Line | |
| Regression to the Mean | |
| Checking the Model | |
| Learning More from the Residuals | |
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