Research and Evaluation for Business

Research and Evaluation for Business is intended for use in either a one or two semester introductory business statistics course. The focus of the text is on decision making based on data analysis. This is a real data, and problem–oriented text that teaches the actual practice of statistical thinking, management of decision making for tool selection, assumptions management, outcome interpretation, and reporting. The text incorporates, where appropriate, Excel and Minitab commands and output in examples and exercises.

Spis treści:
∗ The Language of Statistics
∗ Graphical Displays of Data
∗ Numerical Descriptors
∗ Probability
∗ Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals
∗ Hypothesis Testing: An Introduction
∗ Inferences: One Population
∗ Inferences: Two Populations
∗ ANOVA and Experimental Design
∗ Simple Linear Regression and Correlation
∗ Time Series Analysis
∗ The Analysis of Qualitative Data