Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach, Student Value Edition

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Gain an edge in today’s workplace by applying statistical analysis skills to real-world decision-making.

Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach provides you with an introduction to business statistics and to the analysis skills and techniques needed to make successful real-world business decisions. Written for students of all mathematical skill levels, the authors present concepts in a systematic and ordered way, drawing from their own experience as educators and consultants. Rooted in the theme that data are the starting point,  Business Statistics  champions the need to use and understand different types of data and data sources to be effective decision makers. This new edition integrates Microsoft Excel throughout as a way to work with statistical concepts and gives you a resource that can be used in both their academic and professional careers. 

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1. The Where, Why, and How of Data Collection

2. Graphs, Charts, and Tables–Describing Your Data

3. Describing Data Using Numerical Measures

1. Chapters 1-3 Special Review Section

4. Introduction to Probability

5. Discrete Probability Distributions

6. Introduction to Continuous Probability Distributions

7. Introduction to Sampling Distributions

8. Estimating Single Population Parameters

9. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

10. Estimation and Hypothesis Testing for Two Population Parameters

11. Hypothesis Tests and Estimation for Population Variances

12. Analysis of Variance

1. Chapters 8-12 Special Review Section

13. Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Contingency Analysis

14. Introduction to Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis

15. Multiple Regression Analysis and Model Building

16. Analyzing and Forecasting Time-Series Data

17. Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics

18. Introducing Business Analytics

19. (Online Only) Introduction to Decision Analysis

20. (Online Only) Introduction to Quality and Statistical Process Control

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