Doing Statistics for Business

GETTING STARTED; Introduction: The Role of Statistical Thinking in Management; The Language of Statistics; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; Graphical Displays of Data; Numerical Descriptors of Data; Analyzing Bivariate Data; THE KEYS THAT UNLOCK THE DOOR TO INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; Probability; Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; Hypothesis Testing: An Introduction; Inferences: One Population; Comparing Two Populations; MODEL BUILDING; Regression Analysis; Multiple Regression Models; Time Series and Forecasting; ADDITIONAL TOPICS; Experimental Design and Anova; The Analysis of Qualitative Data; Improving and Managing Quality; Pulling It All Together; Appendices; Index.