Business Statistics: for Non-Mathematicians

ISBN-13: 9780230506466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str.

Sonia Taylor

Opis

Business Statistics is a student-friendly book written to encourage business studies students to understand (and enjoy ) their first experience of statistics. Each topic is well illustrated, with many worked examples, tutorial sheets, supplementary exercises, and computer worksheets in SPSS, Minitab and Excel - all with answers provided. The book includes numerous questions and answers to aid student learning. Examples are plentiful, and are based on real world scenarios (from marketing and HRM as well as production processes) to create a relevant, problem-based approach covering the practical and theoretical.

Spis treści

Introduction to Statistics.- Graphical Representation of Data.- Numerical Summary of Data.- Probability.- Normal Distribution.- Estimation.- Hypothesis Testing.- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- Correlation and Regression.- Contingency Tables and Chi-Square Test.- Index Numbers.- Time Series.- Forecasting.- Computer Analysis.- Appendix.- References.- Index.

O autorze

SONIA TAYLOR was previously a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she taught statistics.

Blurb

Business Statistics is a student-friendly book written to encourage first year business students to understand (and enjoy!) their first experience of statistics. Each topic is well illustrated, with worked examples, tutorial sheets, supplementary exercises, and computer worksheets in SPSS, Minitab and Excel - all with answers provided.
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