Authors: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
ISBN-13: 9780321640116, ISBN-10: 032164011X
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: December 2009
Edition: 11st Edition
Dr. Jim McClave is currently President and CEO of Info Tech, Inc., a statistical consulting and software development firm with an international clientele. He is an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Florida, where he was a full-time member of the faculty for 20 years.
P. George Benson is the 21st president of the College of Charleston. Prior to his appointment, he was Dean at the University of Georgia’s C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business. His research interests include quality management, strategic management, belief formation, and judgmental forecasting. He consults nationally in the areas of applied statistics, quality management, and employment discrimination.
Terry Sincich obtained his PhD in statistics from the University of Florida in 1980. He is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems & Decision Sciences Department at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Sincich is responsible for teaching basic statistics to all undergraduates in the College of Business, as well as advanced statistics to all business doctoral candidates. He has published articles in such journals as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, International Journal of Forecasting, Academy of Management Journal, and the Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Dr. Sincich is a co-author of the texts Statistics, A First Course in Statistics, Statistics for Engineering & the Sciences, and A Second Course in Statistics: Regression Analysis.
Classic, yet contemporary. Theoretical, yet applied. Statistics for Business and Economics, Eleventh Edition, gives you the best of both worlds. Using a rich array of applications from a variety of industries, McClave/Sincich/Benson clearly demonstrates how to use statistics effectively in a business environment.
The book focuses on developing statistical thinking so the reader can better assess the credibility and value of inferences made from data. As consumers and future producers of statistical inferences, readers are introduced to a wide variety of data collection and analysis techniques to help them evaluate data and make informed business decisions. As with previous editions, this revision offers an abundance of applications with many new and updated exercises that draw on real business situations and recent economic events. The authors assume a background of basic algebra.
A new edition of an advanced undergraduate level text intended for students with a non-calculus background. Presents statistical theory and principles in the context of real business situations to encourage practical problem-solving. Also covers some of the technological tools available, including EXCEL, SPSS, SAS, or Minitab. MacIntosh or Windows data disk includes learning objectives, thinking challenges, concept presentation slides, and worked examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Methods for Describing Sets of Data | 25 |
Ch. 3 | Probability | 111 |
Ch. 4 | Discrete Random Variables | 161 |
Ch. 5 | Continuous Random Variables | 201 |
Ch. 6 | Sampling Distributions | 239 |
Ch. 7 | Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals | 269 |
Ch. 8 | Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis | 317 |
Ch. 9 | Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses | 367 |
Ch. 10 | Simple Linear Regression | 429 |
Ch. 11 | Multiple Regression | 499 |
Ch. 12 | Model Building | 577 |
Ch. 13 | Methods for Quality Improvement | 661 |
Ch. 14 | Time Series: Descriptive Analyses, Models, and Forecasting | 733 |
Ch. 15 | Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance | 799 |
Ch. 16 | Nonparametric Statistics | 867 |
Ch. 17 | The Chi-Square Test and the Analysis of Contingency Tables | 913 |
Ch. 18 | Decision Analysis | 947 |
App. A | Basic Counting Rules | 999 |
App. B: Tables | 1003 | |
App. C | Calculation Formulas for Analysis of Variance | 1036 |
Answers to Selected Exercises | 1038 | |
References | 1051 | |
Index | 1057 |