Business Statistics

Preface iv

1 Introduction to Statistics and Business Analytics 1

2 Visualizing Data with Charts and Graphs 22

3 Descriptive Statistics 57

4 Probability 93

5 Discrete Distributions 134

6 Continuous Distributions 172

7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 208

8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 239

9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 273

10 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 323

11 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 378

12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 435

13 Multiple Regression Analysis 486

14 Building Multiple Regression Models 514

15 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 563

16 Analysis of Categorical Data 618

17 Nonparametric Statistics 638

18 Statistical Quality Control 684

19 Decision Analysis 727

Appendix A Tables 761

Glossary 802

Index 809