Business Statistics

Contemporary Decision Making

Ken Black (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

864 Seiten

2009 | 6th edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-40901-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Widely recognized for its effective and user-friendly pedagogy, Business Statistics: Contemporary Decision Making effectively guides students through the introductory business statistics course both clearly and comprehensively.  At its foundation is a comprehensive and formulaic integration of problem solving through quality conceptual and practice questions.   Well-written and energetic, Business Statistics, 6e enables professors to facilitate a highly successful, mathematically appropriate experience for all business statistics students.

The robust new 6th Edition offers an unparalleled Resource package that is fully integrated in WileyPLUS, which contains everything students need to achieve academic success:  the full e-book, a dozen Video Tutorials, a Tree Taxonomy Diagram, improved visuals, problems, exercises, significantly upgraded algorithmic problems, and much more!

Autor

Ken Black is currently professor of decision sciences in the School of Business at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Missouri, he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Graceland University, a master's degree in math education from the University of Texas at El Paso, a Ph.D. in business administration in management science, and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of North Texas. Since joining the faculty of UHCL in 1979, Professor Black has taught all levels of statistics courses, forecasting, management science, market research, and production/operations management. In 2005, he was awarded the President's Distinguished teaching Award for the university. He has published over 20 journal articles and 20 professional papers, as well as two textbooks: Business Statistics: An Introductory Course and business Statistics for contemporary Decision Making. black has consulted for many different companies, including Aetna, the city of Houston, NYLCare, AT&T, Johnson Space center, Southwest Information Resources, Connect Corporation, and Eagle Engineering. Ken Black and his wife, Carolyn, have two daughters, Caycee and Wendi, His hobbies include playing the guitar, reading, traveling, and running.

Inhalt

Unit I: Introduction. 1 Introduction to Statistics.

2 Charts and Graphs.

3 Descriptive Statistics.

4 Probability.

Unit II: Distributions and Sampling.

5 Discrete Distributions.

6 Continuous Distributions.

7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions.

Unit III: Making Inferences About Population Parameters.

8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations.

9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations.

10 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations.

11 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments.

Unit IV: regression Analysis and Forecasting.

12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation.

13 Multiple Regression Analysis.

14 Building Multiple Regression Models.

15 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers.

Unit V: Nonparametric Statistics and Quality.

16 Analysis of Categorical Data.

17 Nonparametric Statistics.

18 Statistical Quality Control.

Appendices.

A Tables.

B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems.

Glossary.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2009
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 224 x 286 mm
• Gewicht: 1814 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
• ISBN-10: 0-470-40901-0 / 0470409010
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-40901-5 / 9780470409015
• Zustand: Neuware