This brand new text offer students complete coverage of Statistical
Methods concepts, ideal for a statistics module taken as part of an economics, business or
management degree programme.
The book has been specifically written for for students in Europe, and contains
examples, cases and problems that draw on data from European companies and organisations.
Table of Contents
Detailed table of contents
Preface
Guided Tour
Technology to enhance teaching and learning
1 Introduction and basic concepts
Part 1 Descriptive Statistics
2. Tables and graphs
3. Measures of location
4. Measures of variation
5. Pairs of variables
Part 2 Probability
6. Definitions of Probability
7. Calculation of probabilities
8. Probability distribution, expectation, variance
9. Families of discrete distributions
10. Families of continuous distributions
11. Joint probability distributions
Part 3 Sampling theory
12. Random samples
13. The sample mean
14. Sample proportion and other sample statistics
Part 4 Inferential statistics
15. Interval estimation and hypothesis testing: a general introduction
16. Confidence intervals and tests for and
17. Statistical inference about
18. Confidence intervals and tests to compare two parameters
19. Simple linear regression
20. Multiple linear regression: introduction
21. Multiple linear regression: extension
22. Multiple linear regression: model violations
23. Time series and forecasting
24. Chi-squared tests
25. Nonparametric statistics
Appendix A1 Excel and SPSS (on Internet)
Appendix A2 Summation operator ?
Appendix A3 Greek letters
Appendix A4 Tables
Appendix A5 Numeric answers of exercises
952 pages, Paperback