Practical Business Statistics (Hardcover, 6)

Part I Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
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
Part II Probability
6. Probability: Understanding Random Situations
7. Random Variables: Working with Uncertain Numbers
Part III Statistical Inference
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
Part IV Regression and Time Series
11. Correlation and Regression: Measuring and Predicting Relationships
12. Multiple Regression: Predicting One Variable from Several Others
13. Report Writing: Communicating the Results of a Multiple Regression
14. Time Series: Underatanding Changes over Time
Part V Methods and Applications
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