Business Statistics Preliminary Edition, Vol. I

by Norean R. Sharpe, Paul F. Velleman, Richard D. De Veaux

Professors Norean Sharpe (Babson College), Dick De Veaux (Williams College), and Paul Velleman (Cornell University) have teamed up to provide an innovative new textbook for business statistics. These authors have taught at the finest business schools, and draw on their consulting experience at leading companies to show readers how statistical thinking is vital to modern decision making. Managers make better business decisions when they understand statistics, and Business Statistics gives readers the statistical tools and understanding to take them from the classroom to the boardroom. Hundreds of examples are based on current events and timely business topics. Short, accessible chapters allow for flexible coverage of important topics, while the conversational writing style maintains interest and comprehension. EXPLORING AND COLLECTING Statistics and Variation; Data; Surveys and Sampling; Displaying and Describing Categorical Data; Randomness and Probability; Displaying and Describing Quantitative Data; UNDERSTANDING DATA AND Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation; Linear Regression; Sampling Distributions and the Normal Model; Confidence Intervals for Proportions; Testing Hypotheses about Proportions; Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Means; Comparing Two Means; Paired Samples and Blocks; Inference for Chi-Square Tests For all readers interested in business statistics.

480 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2008