Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, 15th Edition

Lind/Marchal/Wathen is a perennial market best seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style and illustrates concepts through the liberal use of business-focused examples that are relevant to the current world of a college student. Known as a “’ text,” Lind’ supporting pedagogy includes self reviews, cumulative exercises, and coverage of software applications including Excel, Minitab, and MegaStat for Excel. The new 15th edition puts more emphasis on the interpretation of data and results and supports Lind’ student-centric, step-by-step approach with McGraw-Hill’ industry leading online assessment resource Connect Business Statistics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What Is Statistics?
Chapter 2 Describing Data: Frequency Tables, Frequency Distributions, and Graphic Presentation
Chapter 3 Describing Data: Numerical Measures
Chapter 4 Describing Data: Displaying and Exploring Data
Chapter 5 A Survey of Probability Concepts
Chapter 6 Discrete Probability Distributions
Chapter 7 Continuous Probability Distributions
Chapter 8 Sampling Methods and the Central Limit Theorem
Chapter 9 Estimation and Confidence Intervals
Chapter 10 One-Sample Tests of Hypothesis
Chapter 11 Two-Sample Tests of Hypothesis
Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance
Chapter 13 Correlation and Linear Regression
Chapter 14 Multiple Regression Analysis
Chapter 15 Index Numbers
Chapter 16 Time Series and Forecasting
Chapter 17 Nonparametric Methods: Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Chapter 18 Nonparametric Methods: Analysis of Ranked Data
Chapter 19 Statistical Process Control and Quality Management
Chapter 20 An Introduction to Decision Theory
Appendix A: Data Sets
Appendix B: Tables
Appendix C: Answers to Odd-Numbered Chapter Exercises and Review Exercises and Solutions to Practice Tests