Essentials of Business Statistics, 5th Edition

The primary goal of Essentials of Business Statistics is to illustrate an accurate view of business statistics in a way that students can easily understand. This is achieved in the following ways:

• New statistical topics and tools are introduced by using continuing case studies. This approach helps to alleviate student anxiety in learning new concepts and enhances overall comprehension
• Streamlined and clarified coverage of graphical and numerical methods
• New graphically based procedures for finding confidence intervals and performing hypothesis tests
• Increased emphasis on Excel and MINITAB with improved and updated step-by-step instructions in the end of chapter material
• Connect Business Statistics homework management

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Business Statistics
Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods
Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods
Chapter 4 Probability
Chapter 5 Discrete Random Variables
Chapter 6 Continuous Random Variables
Chapter 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 8 Confidence Intervals
Chapter 9 Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 10 Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples
Chapter 11 Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance
Chapter 12 Chi-Square Tests
Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression Analysis
Chapter 14 Multiple Regression and Model Building
Appendix A: Statistical Tables