Overview of Applied Business Statistics, 7ed, ISV Book

Black's latest outstanding pedagogy of Business Statistics includes the use of extra problems called "Demonstration Problems" to provide additional insight and explanation to working problems and presents concepts, topics, formulas and application in a manner that is palatable to a vast audience and minimizes the use of "scary" formulas. Special Features ?ú Includes the use of extra problems called "Demonstration Problems" to provide additional insight and explanation to working problems ?ú Presents concepts, topics, formulas, and application in a manner that is palatable to a vast audience and minimizes the use of "scary" formulas. ?ú Includes "Decision Dilemma" about real companies, data, and business issues. Solutions to these dilemmas are presented as a feature called "Decision Dilemma Solved." ?ú All cases and "Decision Dilemmas" are updated and revised and 1/3 have been replaced for currency. ?ú Significant number of additional problems and an extremely competitive collection of databases on: international stock markets, consumer food, international labor, financial, energy, agribusiness, 12-year gasoline, manufacturing, and hospital. Table of Content INTRODUCTION 1 What Is Statistics Decision Dilemma: Statistics Describe the State of Business in India's Countryside 2 Visualizing the Data Decision Dilemma: Container Shipping Companies 3 Describing Data Through Statistics Decision Dilemma: Laundry Statistics 5 Discrete Probability Distributions Decision Dilemma: Life with a Cell Phone 6 Continuous Probability Distributions Decision Dilemma: The Cost of Human Resources 7 Distributions of the Sample Mean and Sample Proportion and Sampling Techniques Decision Dilemma: What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers? 8 Estimating Parameters for Single Populations Decision Dilemma: Compensation for Purchasing Managers 9 Testing Hypotheses about Single Population Parameters Decision Dilemma: Word-of-Mouth Business Referrals and Influentials 10 Analyzing the Differences in Two Populations Decision Dilemma: Online Shopping 11 Analysis of Variance Decision Dilemma: Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign Self-Initiated Expatriates 12 Introduction to Regression Analysis and Correlation Decision Dilemma: Predicting International Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big Mac 13 Basic Multiple Regression Analysis Decision Dilemma: Are You Going to Hate Your New Job? 14 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis Decision Dilemma: Determining Compensation for CEOs 15 Forecasting Decision Dilemma: Forecasting Air Pollution 16 Chi-Square Analysis Decision Dilemma: Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry 17 Analyzing Data Using Nonparametric Statistics Decision Dilemma: How Is the Doughnut Business? 18 Quality Decision Dilemma: Italy's Piaggio Makes a Comeback 19 Decision Analysis C19-2 Decision Dilemma: Decision Making at the CEO Level C19-3 APPENDICES A Tables B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems GLOSSARY INDEX SUPPLEMENTS 1 Summation Notation S1-1 2 Derivation of Simple Regression Formulas for Slope and y Intercept S2-1 3 Advanced Exponential Smoothing S3-1 Exponential Smoothing with Trend Effects: Holt's Method S3-1 Exponential Smoothing with Both Trend and Seasonality: Winter's Method S3-2 Some Practice Problems S3-5

• Book Type :

Economics

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

876 pa