Synopses & Reviews
With Statistics for Management, Levin and Rubin have provided a non-intimidating business statistics book that users can easily read and understand. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition includes the absolute minimum of mathematical/statistical notation necessary to teach the material. Concepts are fully explained in simple, easy-to-understand language as they are presented, making the book an excellent source from which to learn and teach. After each discussion, readers are guided through real-world examples to show how book principles work in professional practice. Includes easy-to-understand explanations of difficult statistical topics, such as sampling distributions, relationship between confidence level and confidence interval, interpreting r-square. A complete package of teaching/learning aids is provided in every chapter, including chapter review exercises, chapter concepts tests,"Statistics at Work" conceptual cases, "Computer Database Exercises", "From the Textbook to the Real-World Examples."
This ISBN is in two volumes Part A and Part B.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.
2. Grouping and Displaying Data to Convey Meaning: Tables and Graphs.
3. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion in Frequency Distributions.
4. Probability I: Introductory Ideas.
5. Probability Distributions.
6. Sampling and Sampling Distributions.
7. Estimation.
8. Testing Hypotheses: One Sample Tests.
9. Testing Hypotheses: Two-Sample Tests.
10. Quality and Quality Control.
11. Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance.
12. Simple Regression and Correlation.
13. Multiple Regression and Modeling.
14. Nonparametric Methods.
15. Time Series and Forecasting.
16. Index Numbers.
17. Decision Theory.
Appendix Tables.