In this fourteenth edition, Statistics for Business and Economics continues to help students see the relevance of statistics to their own careers through examples from various business functionalities, emphasis on interpretation and decision making, and use of data analysis software.
New to This Edition 1.A First Things First Chapter that illustrates how developments in business analytics and "big data" have made understanding statistics that much more critical.
2.JMP Guides, in addition to updated Excel and Minitab Guides, that provide detailed,hands-on instructions for using JMP to illustrate the concepts that this book teaches.
3.A Business Analytics Chapter that makes extensive use of JMP and Minitab to illustrate predictive analytics for prediction, classification, clustering, and association.
4.Tabular Summaries that state hypothesis test and regression example results along with the conclusions that those results support.
著者信息
作者簡介
Mark L. Berenson
現職:Montclair State University
David M. Levine
現職:City University of New York
Kathryn A. Szabat
現職:La Salle University
David F. Stephan
現職:Two Bridges Instructional Technology
圖書目錄
Ch 1 Defining and Collecting Data Ch 2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables Ch 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures Ch 4 Basic Probability Ch 5 Discrete Probability Distributions Ch 6 The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions Ch 7 Sampling Distributions Ch 8 Confidence Interval Estimation Ch 9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests Ch10 Two-Sample Tests Ch11 Analysis of Variance Ch12 Chi-Square and Nonparametric Tests Ch13 Simple Linear Regression Ch14 Introduction to Multiple Regression Ch15 Multiple Regression Model Building Ch16 Time-Series Forecasting Ch17 Business Analytics Ch18 Getting Ready to Analyze Data in the Future Ch19 Statistical Applications in Quality Management (online) Ch20 Decision Making (online)