Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers (5版)

Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers takes a comprehensive and contemporary approach that aims to bridge the gap between how statistics is taught and applied in the business world. This title not only prepares students in basic statistics but also gets them excited about further exploration of data analytics. The authors emphasize communicating with numbers rather than number crunching, through relatable case studies with relevant statistical methods and takeaways. This title incorporates timely examples from various fields, reinforces core features from previous editions, uses Excel and R to analyze data and solve problems, and includes new improvements, such as a revised chapter on data visualization, an exclusive chapter on logistic regression, and digital enhancements such as a big data capstone project with algorithmic exercises that span across multiple chapters.

PART I: INTRODUCTION Ch 1 Data and Data Preparation PART II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Ch 2 Data Visualization Ch 3 Summary Meaures PART III: PROBABILITIY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS Ch 4 Introduction to Probability Ch 5 Discrete Probability Distributions Ch 6 Continuous Probability Distributions PART IV: BASIC INFERENCE Ch 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions Ch 8 Interval Estimation Ch 9 Hypothesis Testing Ch10 Statistical Inference Concerning Two Populations Ch11 Statistical Inference Concerning Variance Ch12 Chi-Square Tests PART V: ADVANCED INFERENCE Ch13 Analysis of Variance Ch14 Correlation and Regression Ch15 Inference with Regression Models Ch16 More Topics in Regression Analysis Ch17 Logistic Regression PART VI: SUPPLEMENTARTY TOPICS Ch18 Forecasting with Time Series Data Ch19 Returns, Index Numbers, and Inflation Ch20 Nonparametric Tests