Statistics for Management, 8e, is a comprehensive textbook designed to help students understand the statistical concepts and applications used in business and management situations. In the manner of the earlier editions, this edition too omits complex notations in favor of graphic and verbal explanations and aims to explain the subject with a practical orientation. Examples from the real world are discussed to explain how the textbook principles work in professional practice. Written in a simple and lucid language, this book is an excellent resource for students pursuing management courses.
Salient Features
• Emphasis on providing easy-to-understand explanation of statistical topic a strong real-world focus
• Offers three types of end-of-chapter exercise – Basic Concepts (exercises without scenarios), Applications (with scenarios), and Self-Check Exercises (with worked-out solutions right in the section)
• Increase in the number of real-world examples in the end-of-chapter sections Review and Application Exercises
• Includes new problems and cases specifically covering the Indian scenario
• Provides a stepwise guide along with relevant snapshots for running various tools on the SPSS software and the MS Excel Package
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Grouping and Displaying Data to Convey Meaning:
Tables and Graphs
Chapter 3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
in Frequency Distributions
Chapter 4 Probability I: Introductory Ideas
Chapter 5 Probability Distributions
Chapter 6 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7 Estimation
Chapter 8 Testing Hypotheses: One-sample Tests
Chapter 9 Testing Hypotheses: Two-sample Tests
Chapter 10 Quality and Quality Control
Chapter 11 Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance
Chapter 12 Simple Regression and Correlation
Chapter 13 Multiple Regression and Modeling
Chapter 14 Nonparametric Methods
Chapter 15 T ime Series and Forecasting
Chapter 16 Index Numbers
Chapter 17 Decision Theory
Appendix Tables
Bibliography
Index
Author Info
Richard I. Levin
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Masood H. Siddiqui
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow
David S. Rubin
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sanjay Rastogi
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi
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