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by Dean Foster, Robert Stine
Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, 3rd Edition
- Statistics for Business Decision Making and Analysis
- About the Authors
- Contents
- Preface
- Student Resources
- Instructor Resources
- Technology Resources
- Index of Applications
- Accounting
- Advertising
- Agriculture
- Automotive
- Banking
- Business (General)
- Company Names
- Construction
- Consumers
- Demographics
- Distribution and Operations Management
- E-Commerce
- Economics
- Education
- Energy
- Environment
- Finance and Investments
- Food/Drink
- Games
- Government
- Human Resource Management/Personnel
- Insurance
- Labor
- Law
- Management
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Media and Entertainment
- Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, and Health
- Quality Control
- Real Estate
- Salary and Benefits
- Sales and Retail
- Science
- Service Industries
- Sports
- Surveys and Opinion Polls
- Technology
- Transportation
- Part I Variation
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Data
- Chapter 3 Describing Categorical Data
- Chapter 4 Describing Numerical Data
- Chapter 5 Association between Categorical Variables
- Chapter 6 Association between Quantitative Variables
- Statistics in Action Case: Financial Time Series
- Statistics in Action Case: Executive Compensation
- Part II Probability
- Chapter 7 Probability
- Chapter 8 Conditional Probability
- Chapter 9 Random Variables
- Day Trading Is Popular with Young People Around the World.
- 9.1 Random Variables
- 9.2 Properties of Random Variables
- 9.3 Properties of Expected Values
- 9.4 Comparing Random Variables
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Objectives
- Formulas
- Mean or Expected Value of a Discrete Random Variable X
- Variance of a Discrete Random Variable
- Adding a Constant to a Random Variable
- Multiplying a Random Variable by a Constant
- Adding a Constant and Multiplying by a Constant
- Sharpe Ratio of the Random Variable X with Mean μ and Variance σ2
- About the Data
- Exercises
- Chapter 10 Association between Random Variables
- Chapter 11 Probability Models for Counts
- Chapter 12 The Normal Probability Model
- Statistics in Action Case: Managing Financial Risk
- Statistics in Action Case: Modeling Sampling Variation
- Part III Inference
- Chapter 13 Samples and Surveys
- Chapter 14 Sampling Variation and Quality
- Chapter 15 Confidence Intervals
- The Federal Reserve Says That U.S. Households Have Accumulated Close to $12 Trillion in Outstanding Debt.
- 15.1 Ranges for Parameters
- 15.2 Confidence Interval for the Mean
- 15.3 Interpreting Confidence Intervals
- 15.4 Manipulating Confidence Intervals
- 15.5 Margin of Error
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 16 Statistical Tests
- Spam Is Annoying. Junk Email Takes Time to Delete, and You Sometimes Mistakenly Throw Out Messages You Want Along with the Junk.
- 16.1 Concepts of Statistical Tests
- 16.2 Testing the Proportion
- 16.3 Testing The Mean
- 16.4 Significance Versus Importance
- 16.5 Confidence Interval or Test?
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 17 Comparison
- Chapter 18 Inference for Counts
- Online Marketing Allows a Retailer to Customize Sales Pitches.
- 18.1 Chi-Squared Tests
- 18.2 Test of Independence
- 18.3 General versus Specific Hypotheses
- 18.4 Tests of Goodness of Fit
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Statistics in Action Case: Rare Events
- Statistics in Action Case: Data Mining Using Chi-Squared
- Part IV Regression Models
- Chapter 19 Linear Patterns
- Chapter 20 Curved Patterns
- Chapter 21 The Simple Regression Model
- Chapter 22 Regression Diagnostics
- The Internet Has Changed Many Business Models, Generating New Approaches to Retail Marketing, Medical Care, and Service Industries.
- 22.1 Changing Variation
- 22.2 Outliers
- 22.3 Dependent Errors and Time Series
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 23 Multiple Regression
- Chapter 24 Building Regression Models
- Chapter 25 Categorical Explanatory Variables
- Chapter 26 Analysis of Variance
- Chapter 27 Time Series
- Statistics in Action Case: Analyzing Experiments
- Statistics in Action Case: Automated Modeling
- Appendix Tables
- Answers
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Statistics in Action 1–2
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Statistics in Action 3–4
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Statistics in Action 5–6
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Statistics in Action 7–8
- Credits
- Photo Credits
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Text Credits
- Photo Credits
- Subject Index
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