Title:
Statistics for managers using Microsoft Excel
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle river, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2002
Physical Description:
1v + 1 CD-ROM
ISBN:
9780130290908
9780130970824
General Note:
Also available in compact disc version : CP 4261
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Summary
Summary
For one- or two-term courses in Business Statistics at the undergraduate or graduate level. This text integrates the use of Microsoft Excel while focusing on the concepts of statistics with applications to the functional areas of business. It is rich in applications from accounting, finance, marketing, management and economics. There is significant emphasis on using statistical software as a tool, with most examples presented in a spreadsheet environment.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| 1 Introduction and Data Collection |
| 2 Presenting Data in Tables and Charts |
| 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures |
| 4 Basic Probability |
| 5 Some Important Discrete Probability Distributions |
| 6 The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions |
| 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions |
| 8 Confidence Interval Estimation |
| 9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests |
| 10 Two-Sample Tests |
| 11 Analysis of Variance |
| 12 Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests |
| 13 Simple Linear Regression |
| 14 Introduction to Multiple Regression |
| 15 Multiple Regression Model Building |
| 16 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers |
| 17 Decision Making |
| 18 Statistical Applications in Quality Management |
| Appendices |
| A Review of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Logarithms |
| B Summation Notation |
| C Statistical Symbols and Greek Alphabet |
| D CD-ROM Contents |
| E Tables |
| F Configuring Microsoft Excel and Installing PHStat |
| Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Problems |
| Index |
| CD-ROM Topics |
| 4.5 Counting Rules |
| 5.6 Using the Poisson Distribution to Approximate the Binomial Distribution |
| 6.6 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution |
| 7.6 Sampling from Finite Populations |
| 8.7 Estimation and Sample Size Determination for Finite Populations |
| 9.7 The Power of a Test |
| 11.3 The Randomized Block Design |
| 12.7 Chi-Square Test for a Variance or Standard Deviation |
