Title: The practice of statistics for business and economics /
Authors: Moore, David S.; McCabe, George P.,; Alwan, Layth C.,; Craig, Bruce A.,; Duckworth, William Maury,
Publisher: W. H. Freeman ; Palgrave [distributor],
Year: 2011
Subjects: Commercial statistics.; Statistics
Abstract: Modern businesses have to deal with a mass of data. What do these data tell us, and how can we use inferences from the data to make better business decisions? The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics is designed to answer these questions by discussin data production and interpretation at the start of the book.
Contents: Examining distributions -- Examining relationships -- Producing data -- Probability and sampling distributions -- Probability theory -- Introduction to inference -- Inference for distributions -- Inference for proportions -- Inference for two-way tables -- Inference for regression -- Multiple regression -- Statistics for quality: control and capability -- Time series forecasting -- One-way analysis of variance.