Business Statistics for Dummies

Taking a business statistics course, or just need to understand this complicated topic for your business? This guide shows how statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations apply to the world of global business and economics. You'll get an introduction on sampling and graphs, and discover how statistics are used in daily life.

List of contents

Introduction 1
 
Part I: Getting Started with Business Statistics 5
 
Chapter 1: The Art and Science of Business Statistics 7
 
Chapter 2: Pictures Tell the Story: Graphical Representations of Data 23
 
Chapter 3: Finding a Happy Medium: Identifying the Center of a Data Set 39
 
Chapter 4: Searching High and Low: Measuring Variation in a Data Set 55
 
Chapter 5: Measuring How Data Sets Are Related to Each Other 71
 
Part II: Probability Theory and Probability Distributions 91
 
Chapter 6: Probability Theory: Measuring the Likelihood of Events 93
 
Chapter 7: Probability Distributions and Random Variables 111
 
Chapter 8: The Binomial, Geometric, and Poisson Distributions 121
 
Chapter 9: The Uniform and Normal Distributions: So Many Possibilities! 139
 
Chapter 10: Sampling Techniques and Distributions 165
 
Part III: Drawing Conclusions from Samples 185
 
Chapter 11: Confidence Intervals and the Student's t-Distribution 187
 
Chapter 12: Testing Hypotheses about the Population Mean 201
 
Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses about Multiple Population Means 233
 
Chapter 14: Testing Hypotheses about the Population Mean 251
 
Part IV: More Advanced Techniques: Regression Analysis and Forecasting 281
 
Chapter 15: Simple Regression Analysis 283
 
Chapter 16: Multiple Regression Analysis: Two or More Independent Variables 309
 
Chapter 17: Forecasting Techniques: Looking into the Future 327
 
Part V: The Part of Tens 351
 
Chapter 18: Ten Common Errors That Arise in Statistical Analysis 353
 
Chapter 19: Ten Key Categories of Formulas for Business Statistics 361
 
Index 373

Product details

• Authors: A Anderson, Alan Anderson, Alan (Fordham University Anderson, Alan (Fordham University; Polytechnic University) Anderson, Alan (Middlesex Business School) Anderson, Consumer Dummies, Polytechnic Un
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2013
• EAN: 9781118630693
• ISBN: 978-1-118-63069-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: For Dummies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business administration, companies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Wirtschaftsstatistik, Business & management, Probability and statistics, Wirtschaft u. Management, Wirtschaftsmathematik u. -statistik, Business Statistics & Math