Applied Business Statistics: Making Better Business Decisions, 7th
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Table of Contents
Preface xvii
About the Author xxvii
INTRODUCTION
1 What Is Statistics 02
Decision Dilemma: Statistics Describe the State of Business in India’s
Countryside 03
2 Visualizing the Data 18
Decision Dilemma: Container Shipping Companies 19
3 Describing Data Through Statistics 52
Decision Dilemma: Laundry Statistics 53
5 Discrete Probability Distributions 142
Decision Dilemma: Life with a Cell Phone 143
6 Continuous Probability Distributions 184
Decision Dilemma: The Cost of Human Resources 185
7 Distributions of the Sample Mean and Sample Proportion and Sampling Techniques 222
Decision Dilemma: What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers? 223
8 Estimating Parameters for Single Populations 256
Decision Dilemma: Compensation for Purchasing Managers 257
9 Testing Hypotheses about Single Population Parameters 294
Decision Dilemma: Word-of-Mouth Business Referrals and Influentials 295
10 Analyzing the Differences in Two Populations 348
Decision Dilemma: Online Shopping 349
11 Analysis of Variance 408
Decision Dilemma: Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign
Self-Initiated Expatriates 409
12 Introduction to Regression Analysis and Correlation 470
Decision Dilemma: Predicting International Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big
Mac 471
13 Basic Multiple Regression Analysis 522
Decision Dilemma: Are You Going to Hate Your New Job? 523
14 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis 552
Decision Dilemma: Determining Compensation for CEOs 553
15 Forecasting 602
Decision Dilemma: Forecasting Air Pollution 603
16 Chi-Square Analysis 658
Decision Dilemma: Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry 659
17 Analyzing Data Using Nonparametric Statistics 684
Decision Dilemma: How Is the Doughnut Business? 685
18 Quality 734
Decision Dilemma: Italy’s Piaggio Makes a Comeback 735
19 Decision Analysis C19-2
Decision Dilemma: Decision Making at the CEO Level C19-3
APPENDICES
A Tables 779
B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 819
GLOSSARY 829
INDEX 839
SUPPLEMENTS
1 Summation Notation S1-1
2 Derivation of Simple Regression Formulas for Slope and y Intercept S2-1
3 Advanced Exponential Smoothing S3-1
Exponential Smoothing with Trend Effects: Holt’s Method S3-1
Exponential Smoothing with Both Trend and Seasonality: Winter’s Method S3-2
Some Practice Problems S3-5
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