A Step-By-Step Introduction to Statistics for Business

A clear and concise introduction to statistics for business and management students, demonstrating how important statistics are in the business decision-making process and covering everything from conducting a survey and collecting data, to summarizing statistical data, and presenting findings.

Auteur
Richard Landers is Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Old Dominion University, U.S.A.

Contenu

Prologue: Review of Essential Mathematics
Part 1. Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 1. The Language of Statistics
Chapter 2. Working with Numbers and Data Display
Chapter 3. Central Tendency and Variability
Chapter 4. Probability Distributions
Chapter 5. Sampling Distributions
Part 2. Inferential Statistics
Chapter 6. Estimation and Confidence Intervals
Chapter 7. Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 8. z-Tests and One-Sample t-Tests
Chapter 9. Paired- and Independent-Samples t-Test
Chapter 10. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Chapter 11. Chi-Squared (x2) Tests of Fit
Chapter 12. Correlation and Regression
Part 3 Wrap-Up
Chapter 13. Matching Statistical Tests to Business Problems
A1. z-Table
A2. t-Table
A3. F-Table (cx = 0.5)
A4. F-Table (cx = .01)
A5. X2-Table (chi-squared)
B1. Inferential Test Reference Table
B2. Inferential Test Decision Tree
C. Glossary
D. Statistical Notation and Formulas
E. Enabling Excel's Data Analysis Add-In