Business Statistics OLP with etext, Global Edition

Norean Sharpe, Richard De Veaux, Paul Velleman (Autoren)

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2015 | 3rd edition
Pearson Education Limited
978-1-292-07071-1 (ISBN)

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For courses in Business Statistics Business Statistics, Third Edition, by Sharpe, De Veaux, and Velleman, narrows the gap between theory and practice-relevant statistical methods empower business students to make effective, data-informed decisions. With their unique blend of teaching, consulting, and entrepreneurial experiences, this dynamic author team brings a modern edge to teaching statistics to business students. Focusing on statistics in the context of real business issues, with an emphasis on analysis and understanding over computation, the text helps students be analytical, prepares them to make better business decisions, and shows them how to effectively communicate results. This program provides a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Here's how: * Grounded in modern business, this text provides a real-world context for statistical concepts, preparing students to be successful in the business world. * Practice and support: Study tools throughout the text prepare students to analyze and interpret data. * Integrated technology: Optional coverage helps students use real statistics software * NEW!
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Preface

Index of Applications

1. Data and Decisions (E-Commerce)

1.1 Data and Decisions

1.2 Variable Types

1.3 Data Sources: Where, How, and When

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Data on the Computer

  Brief Case: Credit Card Bank

2. Displaying and Describing Categorical Data (Keen, Inc.)

2.1 Summarizing a Categorical Variable

2.2 Displaying a Categorical Variable

2.3 Exploring Two Categorical Variables: Contingency Tables

2.4 Segmented Bar Charts and Mosaic Plots

2.5 Simpson's Paradox

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Displaying Categorical Data on the Computer

  Brief Case: Credit Card Bank

3. Displaying and Describing Quantitative Data (AIG)

3.1 Displaying Quantitative Variables

3.2 Shape

3.3 Center

3.4 Spread of the Distribution

3.5 Shape, Center, and Spread–A Summary

3.6 Standardizing Variables

3.7 Five-Number Summary and Boxplots

3.8 Comparing Groups,

3.9 Identifying Outliers,

3.10 Time Series Plots

3.11 Transforming Skewed Data

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Variables

  Brief Cases: Detecting the Housing Bubble and Socio-Economic Data on States

4. Correlation and Linear Regression (Amazon.com)

4.1 Looking at Scatterplots

4.2 Assigning Roles to Variables in Scatterplots

4.3 Understanding Correlation

4.4 Lurking Variables and Causation

4.5 The Linear Model

4.6 Correlation and the Line

4.7 Regression to the Mean

4.8 Checking the Model

4.9 Variation in the Model and R2

4.10 Reality Check: Is the Regression Reasonable?

4.11 Nonlinear Relationships

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Correlation and Regression

  Brief Cases: Fuel Efficiency, Cost of Living, and Mutual Funds

  Case Study I: Paralyzed Veterans of America

5. Randomness and Probability (Credit Reports and the Fair Isaacs Corporation)

5.1 Random Phenomena and Probability

5.2 The Nonexistent Law of Averages

5.3 Different Types of Probability

5.4 Probability Rules

5.5 Joint Probability and Contingency Tables

5.6 Conditional Probability

5.7 Constructing Contingency Tables

5.8 Probability Trees

5.9 Reversing the Conditioning: Bayes’ Rule

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Generating Random Numbers

  Brief Case

6. Random Variables and Probability Models (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)

6.1 Expected Value of a Random Variable

6.2 Standard Deviation of a Random Variable

6.3 Properties of Expected Values and Variances

6.4 Bernoulli Trials

6.5 Discrete Probability Models

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Random Variables and Probability Models

  Brief Case: Investment Options

7. The Normal and other Continuous Distributions (The NYSE)

7.1 The Standard Deviation as a Ruler

7.2 The Normal Distribution

7.3 Normal Probability Plots

7.4 The Distribution of Sums of Normals

7.5 The Normal Approximation for the Binomial

7.6 The Other Continuous Random Variables

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Probability Calculations and Plots

Brief Case

8. Surveys and Sampling (Roper Polls)

8.1 Three Ideas of Sampling

8.2 Populations and Parameters

8.3 Common Sampling Designs

8.4 The Valid Survey

8.5 How to Sample Badly

  Ethics in Action

  Technology Help: Random Sampling

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.12.2015
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
ISBN-10	1-292-07071-4 / 1292070714
ISBN-13	978-1-292-07071-1 / 9781292070711
Zustand	Neuware