New To This Edition
1. Enhanced Statistical Coverage
(1) DCOVA Framework: The use of the DCOVA (Define, Collect, Organize, Visualize, and Analyze) framework as an integrated approach for applying statistics to help solve business problems.
(2) Many new applied examples and exercises, with data from The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other sources.
2. Provide a reference guide for using the programs: This edition contains revised, reorganized, and enhanced instructions for using Excel and Minitab in the new end-of-chapter guides and back-of-the book appendices.
Ch 1 Defining and Collecting Data
Ch 2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables
Ch 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures
Ch 4 Basic Probability
Ch 5 Discrete Probability Distributions
Ch 6 The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions
Ch 7 Sampling Distributions
Ch 8 Confidence Interval Estimation
Ch 9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests
Ch10 Two-Sample Tests
Ch11 Analysis of Variance
Ch12 Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests
Ch13 Simple Linear Regression
Ch14 Introduction to Multiple Regression
Ch15 Multiple Regression Model Building
Ch16 Time-Series Forecasting
Ch17 Business Analytics
Ch18 A Road Map for Analyzing Data
Ch19 Statistical Applications in Quality Management(online)
Ch20 Decision Making(online)
◎作者：Mark L Berenson
現職：Montclair State University
◎作者：David Levine
現職：City University of New York
◎作者：Kathryn A. Szabat
現職：La Salle University