Overview
Analyze the data, see the business relevance.Reducing the emphasis on doing computations, this practical text thoroughly integrates Microsoft® Excel as a tool for analysis and presents statistical concepts in the context of the functional areas of business.
The sixth edition focuses on making statistics even more relevant to the business world and builds on the book’s hallmark feature of helping readers with the analysis of statistics.
Synopsis
Reducing the emphasis on doing computations, this practical text thoroughly integrates Microsoft® Excel as a tool for analysis and presents statistical concepts in the context of the functional areas of business.
Introduction; Organizing and Visualizing Data; Descriptive Statistics; Basic Probability; Discrete Probability Distributions; The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions; Sampling and Sampling Distributions; Confidence Interval Estimation; Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests; Two-Sample Tests; Analysis of Variance; Chi-Square Tests and Non-Parametric Tests; Simple Linear Regression; Introduction to Multiple Regression; Multiple Regression Model Building; Time-Series Forecasting; Statistical Applications in Quality Management; Data Analysis Overview; Online Topic: Decision Making
For professionals, particularly managers, making financial analyses and decisions.