Alan Anderson

Business Statistics for Dummies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Score higher in your business statistics course? Easy.

Business statistics is a common course for business majors and MBA candidates. It examines common data sets and the proper way to use such information when conducting research and producing informational reports such as profit and loss statements, customer satisfaction surveys, and peer comparisons.

Business Statistics For Dummies tracks to a typical business statistics course offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels and provides clear, practical explanations of business statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that shows you how these concepts apply to the world of global business and economics.
Shows you how to use statistical data to get an informed and unbiased picture of the market
Serves as an excellent supplement to classroom learning
Helps you score your highest in your Business Statistics course

If you're studying business at the university level or you're a professional looking for a desk reference on this complicated topic, Business Statistics For Dummies has you covered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 187mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781118630693
• ISBN-10: 1118630696
• Artikelnr.: 37326464

Autorenporträt

Alan Anderson, PhD is a teacher of finance, economics, statistics, and math at Fordham and Fairfield universities as well as at Manhattanville and Purchase colleges. Outside of the academic environment he has many years of experience working as an economist, risk manager, and fixed income analyst. Alan received his PhD in economics from Fordham University, and an M.S. in financial engineering from Polytechnic University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Business Statistics 5 Chapter
1: The Art and Science of Business Statistics 7 Chapter 2: Pictures Tell
the Story: Graphical Representations of Data 23 Chapter 3: Finding a Happy
Medium: Identifying the Center of a Data Set 39 Chapter 4: Searching High
and Low: Measuring Variation in a Data Set 55 Chapter 5: Measuring How Data
Sets Are Related to Each Other 71 Part II: Probability Theory and
Probability Distributions 91 Chapter 6: Probability Theory: Measuring the
Likelihood of Events 93 Chapter 7: Probability Distributions and Random
Variables 111 Chapter 8: The Binomial, Geometric, and Poisson Distributions
121 Chapter 9: The Uniform and Normal Distributions: So Many Possibilities!
139 Chapter 10: Sampling Techniques and Distributions 165 Part III: Drawing
Conclusions from Samples 185 Chapter 11: Confidence Intervals and the
Student's t-Distribution 187 Chapter 12: Testing Hypotheses about the
Population Mean 201 Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses about Multiple
Population Means 233 Chapter 14: Testing Hypotheses about the Population
Mean 251 Part IV: More Advanced Techniques: Regression Analysis and
Forecasting 281 Chapter 15: Simple Regression Analysis 283 Chapter 16:
Multiple Regression Analysis: Two or More Independent Variables 309 Chapter
17: Forecasting Techniques: Looking into the Future 327 Part V: The Part of
Tens 351 Chapter 18: Ten Common Errors That Arise in Statistical Analysis
353 Chapter 19: Ten Key Categories of Formulas for Business Statistics 361
Index 373