Preface vii1 Introduction to Statistics and Business Analytics 12 Visualizing Data with Charts and Graphs 223 Descriptive Statistics 564 Probability 925 Discrete Distributions 1326 Continuous Distributions 1697 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 2058 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 2369 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 26910 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 31811 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 37212 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 42713 Multiple Regression Analysis 47714 Building Multiple Regression Models 50415 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 55116 Analysis of Categorical Data 60517 Nonparametric Statistics 62518 Statistical Quality Control 66819 Decision Analysis 710Appendix A Tables 743Appendix B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 784Glossary 793Index 801