Practical business statistics /
Practical Business Statistics, Sixth Edition, is a conceptual, realistic, and matter-of-fact approach to managerial statistics that carefully maintains-but does not overemphasize-mathematical correctness. The book offers a deep understanding of how to learn from data and how to deal with uncertainty...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, MA :
Academic Press,
�2012.
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Edición: | 6th ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1.) INTRODUCTION: DEFINING THE ROLE OF STATISTICS IN BUSINESS
- 2.) DATA STRUCTURES: CLASSIFYING THE VARIOUS TYPES OF DATA SETS
- 3.) HISTOGRAMS: LOOKING AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF DATA
- 4.) LANDMARK SUMMARIES: INTERPRETING TYPICAL VALUES AND PERCENTILES
- 5.) VARIABILITY: DEALING WITH DIVERSITY
- 6.) PROBABILITY: UNDERSTANDING RANDOM SITUATIONS
- 7.) RANDOM VARIABLES: WORKING WITH UNCERTAIN NUMBERS
- 8.) RANDOM SAMPLING: PLANNING AHEAD FOR DATA GATHERING
- 9.) CONFIDENCE INTERVALS: ADMITTING THAT ESTIMATES ARE NOT EXACT
- 10.) HYPOTHESIS TESTING: DECIDING BETWEEN REALITY AND COINCIDENCE
- 11.) CORRELATION AND REGRESSION: MEASURING AND PREDICTING RELATIONSHIPS
- 12.) MULTIPLE REGRESSION: PREDICTING ONE FACTOR FROM SEVERAL OTHERS
- 13.) REPORT WRITING: COMMUNICATING THE RESULTS OF A MULTIPLE REGRESSION
- 14.) TIME SERIES: UNDERSTANDING CHANGES OVER TIME
- 15.) ANOVA: TESTING FOR DIFFERENCES AMONG MANY SAMPLES, AND MUCH MORE
- 16.) NONPARAMETRICS: TESTING WITH ORDINAL DATA OR NONNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS
- 17.) CHI-SQUARED ANALYSIS: TESTING FOR PATTERNS IN QUALITATIVE DATA
- 18.) QUALITY CONTROL: RECOGNIZING AND MANAGING VARIATION
- App A.) EMPLOYEE DATABASE
- App B.) DONATIONS DATABASE
- App C.) SELF-TEST: SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS AND DATABASE EXERCISES
- App D.) STATISTICAL TABLES
- App E.) STATPAD QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE.