Statistics for Business and Economics

1. European Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-119-99366-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 864 Seiten, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 2024 g

Every business area relies on an understanding of statistics to succeed. Statistics for Business and Economics by Carlos Cortinhas and Ken Black shows students that the proper application of statistics in the business world goes hand-in-hand with good decision making. Every statistical tool presented in this book has a business application set in a global context and the many learning features and easy to use structure will engage and reassure each business statistic student.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cortinhas, Carlos

Black, Ken

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Unit I Introduction

1 Introduction to Statistics 3

2 Charts and Graphs 19

3 Descriptive Statistics 51

4 Probability 102

Unit II Distributions and Sampling

5 Discrete Distributions 149

6 Continuous Distributions 194

7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 234

Unit III Making Inferences About Population Parameters

8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 271

9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 310

10 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 363

11 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 422

Unit IV Regression Analysis and Forecasting

12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 487

13 Multiple Regression Analysis 545

14 Building Multiple Regression Models 578

15 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 625

Unit V Categorical Data and Non-parametric Statistics

16 Analysis of Categorical Data 685

17 Non-parametric Statistics 713

Appendices

A Tables 765

B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 807

Glossary 819

Index 829

Website Materials

18 Statistical Quality Control

19 Decision Analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Carlos Cortinhas is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Economics at Exeter University Business School. He completed his PhD in 2007 and prior to joining Exeter Dr Cortinhas completed his Masters at Kobe University, Japan. Aside from academia, he has previously worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan and also for the Ministry for the Economy and Innovation in Portugal. Dr Cortinhas teaches two introductory courses in statistics for undergraduate students at Exeter: the first for accounting, finance and economics majors and the second for business and management majors.