Essential Statistics in Business and Economics

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Contents
CHAPTER ONE Overview of Statistics
	1.1 What Is Statistics?
	1.2 Why Study Statistics?
	1.3 Uses of Statistics
	1.4 Statistical Challenges
	1.5 Writing and Presenting Reports
	1.6 Critical Thinking
	1.7 Statistics: An Evolving Field
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER TWO Data Collection
	2.1 Definitions
	2.2 Level of Measurement
	2.3 Time Series versus Cross-Sectional Data
	2.4 Sampling Concepts
	2.5 Sampling Methods
	2.6 Data Sources
	2.7 Survey Research
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER THREE Describing Data Visually
	3.1 Visual Description
	3.2 Dot Plots
	3.3 Frequency Distributions and Histograms
	3.4 Line Charts
	3.5 Bar Charts
	3.6 Scatter Plots
	3.7 Tables
	3.8 Pie Charts
	3.9 Effective Excel Charts
	3.10 Deceptive Graphs
		Chapter Summary
			Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER FOUR Descriptive Statistics
	4.1 Numerical Description
	4.2 Central Tendency
	4.3 Dispersion
	4.4 Standardized Data
	4.5 Percentiles, Quartiles, and Box Plots
	4.6 Correlation
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
		Exam Review Questions for Chapters 1–4
CHAPTER FIVE Probability
	5.1 Random Experiments
	5.2 Probability
	5.3 Rules of Probability
	5.4 Independent Events
	5.5 Contingency Tables
	5.6 Counting Rules
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER SIX Discrete Probability Distributions
	6.1 Discrete Distributions
	6.2 Uniform Distribution
	6.3 Bernoulli Distribution
	6.4 Binomial Distribution
	6.5 Poisson Distribution
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER SEVEN Continuous Probability Distributions
	7.1 Describing a Continuous Distribution
	7.2 Uniform Continuous Distribution
	7.3 Normal Distribution
	7.4 Standard Normal Distribution
	7.5 Normal Approximations
	7.6 Exponential Distribution
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
		Exam Review Questions for Chapters 5–7
CHAPTER EIGHT Sampling Distributions and Estimation
	8.1 Sampling Variation
	8.2 Estimators and Sampling Distributions
	8.3 Sample Mean and the Central Limit Theorem
	8.4 Confidence Interval for a Mean (μ) with Known σ
	8.5 Confidence Interval for a Mean (μ) with Unknown σ
	8.6 Confidence Interval for a Proportion (π)
	8.7 Sample Size Determination for a Mean
	8.8 Sample Size Determination for a Proportion
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER NINE One-Sample Hypothesis Tests
	9.1 Logic of Hypothesis Testing
	9.2 Statistical Hypothesis Testing
	9.3 Testing a Mean: Known Population Variance
	9.4 Testing a Mean: Unknown Population Variance
	9.5 Testing a Proportion
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER TEN Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests
	10.1 Two-Sample Tests
	10.2 Comparing Two Means: Independent Samples
	10.3 Comparing Two Means: Paired Samples
	10.4 Comparing Two Proportions
	10.5 Comparing Two Variances
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
		Exam Review Questions for Chapters 8–10
CHAPTER ELEVEN Analysis of Variance
	11.1 Overview of ANOVA
	11.2 One-Factor ANOVA (Completely Randomized Model)
	11.3 Multiple Comparisons
	11.4 Tests for Homogeneity of Variances
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER TWELVE Simple Regression
	12.1 Visual Displays and Correlation Analysis
	12.2 Simple Regression
	12.3 Regression Terminology
	12.4 Ordinary Least Squares Formulas
	12.5 Tests for Significance
	12.6 Analysis of Variance: Overall Fit
	12.7 Confidence and Prediction Intervals for Y
	12.8 Violations of Assumptions
	12.9 Unusual Observations
	12.10 Other Regression Problems
		Chapter Summary
			Chapter Exercises
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Multiple Regression
	13.1 Multiple Regression
	13.2 Assessing Overall Fit
	13.3 Predictor Significance
	13.4 Confidence Intervals for Y
	13.5 Binary Predictors
	13.6 Multicollinearity
	13.7 Violations of Assumptions
	13.8 Other Regression Topics
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
		Exam Review Questions for Chapters 11–13
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Chi-Square Tests
	14.1 Chi-Square Test for Independence
	14.2 Chi-Square Tests for Goodness-of-Fit
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Exercises
APPENDIXES A Exact Binomial Probabilities
B Exact Poisson Probabilities
C-1 Standard Normal Areas
C-2 Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution
D Student’s t Critical Values
E Chi-Square Critical Values
F Critical Values of F
G Solutions to Odd-Numbered Exercises
H Answers to Exam Review Questions
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