Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis

✍ Scribed by Stine, Robert A

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 942
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, authors Robert Stine and Dean Foster of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, take a sophisticated approach to teaching statistics in the context of making good business decisions. The authors show students how to recognize and understand each business question, use statistical tools to do the analysis, and how to communicate their results clearly and concisely. In addition to providing cases and real data to demonstrate real business situations, this text provides resources to support understanding and engagement.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Introduction......Page 6
2. Data......Page 16
3. Describing Categorical Data......Page 34
4. Describing Numerical Data......Page 62
5. Association between Categorical Variables......Page 92
6. Association between Quantitative Variables......Page 122
7. Probability......Page 170
8. Conditional Probability......Page 196
9. Random Variables......Page 222
10. Association between Random Variables......Page 248
11. Probability Models for Counts......Page 277
12. The Normal Probability Model......Page 299
13. Samples and Surveys......Page 343
14. Sampling Variation and Quality......Page 365
15. Confidence Intervals......Page 395
16. Statistical Tests......Page 425
17. Comparison......Page 455
18. Inference for Counts......Page 490
19. Linear Patterns......Page 534
20. Curved Patterns......Page 562
21. The Simple Regression Model......Page 590
22. Regression Diagnostics......Page 626
23. Multiple Regression......Page 660
24. Building Regression Models......Page 698
25. Categorical Explanatory Variables......Page 732
26. Analysis of Variance......Page 768
27. Time Series......Page 800
28. Alternative Approaches to Inference......Page 852
29. Regression with Big Data......Page 874
30. Two-Way Analysis of Variance......Page 906
C......Page 934
D......Page 935
F......Page 936
I......Page 937
N......Page 938
P......Page 939
S......Page 940
T......Page 941
Z......Page 942

✦ Subjects

Business