Business Statistics, 11th Edition Loose-leaf

Show students why business statistics is an increasingly important business skill through a student-friendly pedagogy. Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 11th Edition uses current real-world data to equip students with the business analytics techniques and quantitative decision-making skills required to make smart decisions in today’s workplace.

PREFACE vii

1 Introduction to Statistics and Business Analytics 1

2 Visualizing Data with Charts and Graphs 22

3 Descriptive Statistics 56

4 Probability 92

5 Discrete Distributions 132

6 Continuous Distributions 169

7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 205

8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 236

9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 269

10 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 318

11 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 372

12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 427

13 Multiple Regression Analysis 477

14 Building Multiple Regression Models 504

15 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 551

16 Analysis of Categorical Data 605

17 Nonparametric Statistics 625

18 Statistical Quality Control 668

19 Decision Analysis 710

APPENDIX A Tables 743

APPENDIX B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 784

GLOSSARY 793

INDEX 801

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