Statistics for Business and Economics - Hardcover

James, McClave; Benson P., George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 032182623X ISBN 13: 9780321826237

Verlag: Addison Wesley, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Statistics for Business and Economics, Twelfth Edition, meets today's business students with a balance of clarity and rigor, and applications incorporated from a diverse range of industries. This classic text covers a wide variety of data collection and analysis techniques with these goals in mind: developing statistical thinking, learning to assess the credibility and value of inferences made from data, and making informed business decisions.   The Twelfth Edition has been updated with real, current data in many of the exercises, examples, and applications. Exercises draw on actual business situations and recent economic events so that students can test their knowledge throughout the course. Statistics in Action case studies open each chapter with a recent, controversial, or high-profile business issue, motivating students to critically evaluate the findings and think through the statistical issues involved. A continued emphasis on ethics highlights the importance of ethical behavior in collecting, interpreting, and reporting on data.   KEY TOPICS: Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking; Methods for Describing Sets of Data; Probability; Random Variables and Probability Distributions; Sampling Distributions; Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals; Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypotheses; Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses; Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance; Categorical Data Analysis; Simple Linear Regression; Multiple Regression and Model Building; Methods for Quality Improvement: Statistical Process Control (Available on CD); Time Series: Descriptive Analyses, Models, and Forecasting (Available on CD); Nonparametric Statistics (Available on CD)   MARKET: For all readers interested in statistics and its applications to business and economics.

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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 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Addison Wesley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 032182623X
• ISBN 13: 9780321826237
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 864
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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