Statistics for business and economics /
James T. McClave and P. George Benson
- FOURTH EDITION
- San Francisco, California : Dellen Publishing Company, c1988
- xxii, 1267 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. What is Statistics? -- Chapter 2. Graphical Description of Data -- Chapter 3. Numerical Descriptive Measures -- Chapter 4. Probability -- Chapter 5. Discrete Random Variable -- Chapter 6. Continuous Random Variable -- Chapter 7. Sampling Distribution -- Chapter 8. Estimation and A Test of Hypothesis: Single Sample -- Chapter 9. Two Samples: Estimation and Test of Hypothesis -- Chapter 10. Simple Linear Regression -- Chapter 11. Multiple Regression -- Chapter 12. Introduction to Model Building -- Chapter 13. Time Series: Index Numbers and Descriptive Analyses -- Chapter 14. Time Series: Models and Forecasting -- Chapter 15. Analyses of Variance -- Chapter 16. Nonparametric Statistics -- Chapter 17. The Chi-Square Test and The Analysis of Contingency Tables -- Chapter 18. Decision Analysis Using Prior Information -- Chapter 19. Decision Analysis Using Prior and Sample Information -- Chapter 20. Surveying Sampling.
The fourth edition of Statistics for Business and Economics finds the application of statistics to business and economic problems in the midst of a number of significant changes. The availability of microcomputers with a wide range of statistical software has dramatically affected the amount of time we spend teaching computational formulas. The use of statistical quality control in American industry is perhaps the fastest-growing application of statistics in any area. The same corporate structure which nearly 40 years ago forced W. Edwards Deming to take his revolutionary ideas to Japan has welcomed him back as a conquering hero. Deming and his disciples are in constant demand in both academic and corporate circles, and the impact of their philosophy on the statistical education of business students is and will be profound.