Statistics for business and economics. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James T. McClave, Info Tech, Inc., University of Florida, P. George Benson, College of Charleston, Terry Sincich, University of South Florida.
• Authors: McClave, James T; Benson, P. George; Sincich, Terry
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking; 1.1. The Science of Statistics; 1.2. Types of Statistical Applications in Business; 1.3. Fundamental Elements of Statistics; 1.4. Processes (Optional); 1.5. Types of Data; 1.6. Collecting Data: Sampling and Related Issues; 1.7. Business Analytics: Critical Thinking with Statistics; Statistics in Action: A 20/20 View of Surveys: Fact or Fiction?; Activity 1.1: Keep the Change: Collecting Data; Activity 1.2: Identifying Misleading Statistics. Using Technology: Accessing and Listing Data Random Sampling; 2. Methods for Describing Sets of Data; 2.1. Describing Qualitative Data; 2.2. Graphical Methods for Describing Quantitative Data; 2.3. Numerical Measures of Central Tendency; 2.4. Numerical Measures of Variability; 2.5. Using the Mean and Standard Deviation to Describe Data; 2.6. Numerical Measures of Relative Standing; 2.7. Methods for Detecting Outliers: Box Plots and z-Scores; 2.8. Graphing Bivariate Relationships (Optional); 2.9. The Time Series Plot (Optional); 2.10. Distorting the Truth with Descriptive Techniques. Statistics in Action: Can Money Buy Love?Activity 2.1: Real Estate Sales; Activity 2.2: Keep the Change: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability; Using Technology: Describing Data; Making Business Decisions: The Kentucky Milk Caseâ#x80;#x94;Part I (Covers Chapters 1 and 2); 3. Probability; 3.1. Events, Sample Spaces, and Probability; 3.2. Unions and Intersections; 3.3. Complementary Events; 3.4. The Additive Rule and Mutually Exclusive Events; 3.5. Conditional Probability; 3.6. The Multiplicative Rule and Independent Events; 3.7. Bayesâ#x80;#x99;s Rule; Statistics in Action: Lotto Buster! Activity 3.1: Exit Polls: Conditional ProbabilityActivity 3.2: Keep the Change: Independent Events; Using Technology: Combinations and Permutations; 4. Random Variables and Probability Distributions; 4.1. Two Types of Random Variables; Part I: Discrete Random Variables; 4.2. Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables; 4.3. The Binomial Distribution; 4.4. Other Discrete Distributions: Poisson and Hypergeometric; Part II: Continuous Random Variables; 4.5. Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables; 4.6. The Normal Distribution. 4.7. Descriptive Methods for Assessing Normality4.8. Other Continuous Distributions: Uniform and Exponential; Statistics in Action: Probability in a Reverse Cocaine Sting: Was Cocaine Really Sold?; Activity 4.1: Warehouse Club Memberships: Exploring a Binomial Random Variable; Activity 4.2: Identifying the Type of Probability Distribution; Using Technology: Discrete Probabilities, Continuous Probabilities, and Normal Probability Plots; 5. Sampling Distributions; 5.1. The Concept of a Sampling Distribution; 5.2. Properties of Sampling Distributions: Unbiasedness and Minimum Variance.
• Edition: Thirteenth edition Global edition
• Publisher Details: Harlow, United Kingdom : Pearson Education Limited
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (890 pages)
• Subjects: 519.5; Commercial statistics; Economics -- Statistical methods; Statistics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781292227078; 1292227079
• Related ISBNs: 1292227087; 9781292227085
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 07, 2018).
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