Basic Statistics for Business and Economics

Introduction to basic statistics; summarizing data - frequence distributions and graphic presentation; describing data - measures of central tendency and dispersion; a survey of probability concepts; discrete probability distributions; the normal probability distribution; sampling methods and sampling distributions; tests of hypotheses - large samples; test of hypothesis - small samples; analysis of variance; correlation and regression analysis; multiple regression and correlation; nonparametric methods - chi-square applications; statistical quality control; index numbers; time series and forecasting. Appendices: tables and data sets; solutions to even-numbered problems.