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Book cover image of Statistics for Business and Financial Economics (2nd Edition) by Cheng-Few Lee

Authors: Cheng-Few Lee, John C. Lee, Alice C. Lee
ISBN-13: 9789810234850, ISBN-10: 9810234856
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Cheng-Few Lee

Book Synopsis

Designed for upper-level undergraduates, MBA and other graduate students, this book closely integrates various statistical techniques with concepts from business, economics and finance and clearly demonstrates the power of statistical methods in the real world of business. While maintaining the essence of the first edition, the new edition places more emphasis on finance, economics and accounting concepts with updated sample data. Students will find this book very accessible with its straightforward language, ample cases, examples, illustrations and real-life applications. The book is also useful for financial analysts and portfolio managers.

Pt. I	Introduction and Descriptive Statistics	1
Ch. 1	Introduction	2
Ch. 2	Data Collection and Presentation	13
Ch. 3	Frequency Distribution and Data Analyses	53
Ch. 4	Numerical Summary Measures	90
Pt. II	Probability and Important Distributions	143
Ch. 5	Probability Concepts and Their Analysis	144
Ch. 6	Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions	193
Ch. 7	The Normal and Lognormal Distributions	246
Ch. 8	Sampling and Sampling Distributions	298
Ch. 9	Other Continuous Distributions and Moments for Distributions	339
Pt. III	Statistical Inferences Based on Samples	377
Ch. 10	Estimation and Statistical Quality Control	378
Ch. 11	Hypothesis Testing	435
Ch. 12	Analysis of Variance and Chi-Square Tests	485
Pt. IV	Regression and Correlation: Relating Two or More Variables	545
Ch. 13	Simple Linear Regression and the Correlation Coefficient	546
Ch. 14	Simple Linear Regression and Correlation: Analyses and Applications	598
Ch. 15	Multiple Linear Regression	652
Ch. 16	Other Topics in Applied Regression Analysis	700
Pt. V	Selected Topics in Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics	757
Ch. 17	Nonparametric Statistics	758
Ch. 18	Time-Series: Analysis, Model, and Forecasting	797
Ch. 19	Index Numbers and Stock Market Indexes	847
Ch. 20	Sampling Surveys: Methods and Applications	885
Ch. 21	Statistical Decision Theory: Methods and Applications	923
	App. A: Statistical Tables	A1
App. B	Description of Data Sets	A32
App. C	Introduction to MINITAB: Microcomputer Version	A34
App. D	Introduction to SAS: Microcomputer Version	A38
App. E	Useful Formulas in Statistics	A43
App. F	Important Finance Topics	A64
	Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems	A65
	Index	A91