Statistics for business and economics : problems, exercises, and case studies /
Edwin Mansfield
- THIRD EDITION
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c1987
- 298 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Part I. Descriptive Statistics -- 1 and 2. Summary and Description of Data -- Part II. Probability, Probability Distributions, and Sampling -- 3. Probability -- 4. Probability Distributions, Expected Values, and the Binomial Distribution -- 5. The Normal and Poisson Distributions -- 6. Sample Designs and Sampling Distributions -- Part III. Estimation and Hypothesis Testing -- 7. Statistical Estimation -- 8. Hypothesis Testing -- Part IV. Chi-Square Tests, Nonparametric. Techniques, and the: Analysis of Variance -- 9. Chi-Square Tests And Nonparametric Techniques -- 10. Experimental Design and the Analysis of Variance -- Part V. Regression and Correlation -- 11 and 12. Regression and Correlation -- Part VI. Time Series and Index Numbers -- 13. Introduction to. Time Series -- 14. Index Numbers -- Part VII. Statistical Decision Theory -- 15. Decision Theory: Prior and Posterior Analysis -- 16. Decision Theory: Preposterior and Sequential Analysis.
This study guide is designed to accompany my textbook, Statistics for Business and Economics: Methods and Applications, Third Edition. As in the text, there is an emphasis on actual cases in which statistical methods have been used.