Statistics for Business and Economics

EBook Description: This market leading text offers a solid, comprehensive, applications-oriented approach. Written by authors who are well-known and highly regarded in the field, the text provides sound methodological development. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an application setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solutions to problems. Statistics for Business and Economics, 8e offers proven accuracy that has led instructors to adopted it simply for its superior examples and exercises alone.

The Completely Updated Guide for Everyone Whos Ever Been Afraid of Statistics! The easy, practical, up to date introduction to statistics�for everyone! Thought you couldnt learn statistics? You can and you will! One easy step at a time, this fully updated book teaches you all the statistical techniques youll need for finance, quality, marketing, the social sciences, or anything else! Simple jargon free explanations help you understand every technique.
Practical examples and worked out problems give you hands on practice. Special sections present detailed instructions for developing statistical answers, using spreadsheet programs or any TI 83/TI 84 compatible calculator. This edition delivers new examples, more detailed problems and sample solutions, plus an all new chapter on powerful multiple regression techniques. Hate math? No sweat. Youll be amazed at how little you need. Like math? Optional Equation Blackboard sections reveal the mathematical foundations of statistics right before your eyes! Heres Just Some of What You will Learn How to Do/ Construct and interpret statistical charts and tables with Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc 3 / Work with mean, median, mode, standard deviation, Z scores, skewness, and other descriptive statistics / Use probability and probability distributions / Work with sampling distributions and confidence intervals / Test hypotheses with Z, t, chi square, ANOVA, and other techniques / Perform powerful regression analysis and modeling / Use multiple regression to develop models that contain several independent variables / Master specific statistical techniques for quality and Six Sigma programs About the Web Site Download practice files, templates, data sets, and sample spreadsheet models�including ready to use solutions for your own work! www.ftpress.com/youcanlearnstatistics2e

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