Statistics for Business Students: A Guide to Using Excel & IBM SPSS Statistics

Statistics for Business Students brings the teaching of statistics into the 21st century. Rather than focusing on mathematics behind formulae, this textbook uses two most commonly used platforms to teach the subject, and they are Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS. The emphasis is on applications, understanding what the functions deliver and how to interpret the results. A brief content of the book is:

Preface…………………………………………………………………………………….……..13
Chapter 1, Data Visualisation…………………………………………………………….……18
Chapter 2, Descriptive statistics……………………………………………….……….……..95
Chapter 3, Probability distributions…………………………………………………….…..166
Chapter 4, Sampling distributions…………………………………………………….…….241
Chapter 5, Point and interval estimates……………………………………………………289
Chapter 6, Hypothesis testing……………………………………………………………….334
Chapter 7, Parametric hypothesis tests………………………………………………….…358
Chapter 8, Nonparametric tests……………………………………………………….….…417
Chapter 9, Linear correlation and regression analysis……………………………………510
Chapter 10, Introduction to time series data, long term forecasts and seasonality….569
Chapter 11, Short and medium-term forecasts…………………………………………..644
Appendices…………………………………………………………….……………..………..717
Index…………………………………………………………………………………….………751

The book is accompanied by a website www.stats-bus.co.uk which acts as a repository for both students and lecturers. Lecturers’ resources are protected and accessible only by registered and genuine lecturers. The website includes the following resources: all Excel and SPSS data files with solutions, revision pointers, video files, maths refresher, comprehensive introduction to Excel and SPSS, a series of files dedicated to “Want to learn more” category, as well as a variety of resources for lecturers, such as PowerPoint lecture files, comprehensive Instructors’ manual, multiple choice and exam questions and more.