For courses in Introductory Business Statistics.
Now in its 13th Edition, Statistics for Business and Economics introduces statistics in the context of contemporary business. Emphasizing statistical literacy in thinking, the text applies its concepts with real data and uses technology to develop a deeper conceptual understanding. Examples, activities, and case studies foster active learning in the classroom while emphasizing intuitive concepts of probability and teaching students to make informed business decisions. The 13th Edition continues to highlight the importance of ethical behaviour in collecting, interpreting, and reporting on data, while also providing a wealth of new and updated exercises and case studies.
Ch 1 Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking
Ch 2 Methods for Describing Sets of Data
Ch 3 Probability
Ch 4 Random Variables and Probability Distributions
Ch 5 Sampling Distributions
Ch 6 Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals
Ch 7 Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypotheses
Ch 8 Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses
Ch 9 Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance
Ch10 Categorical Data Analysis
Ch11 Simple Linear Regression
Ch12 Multiple Regression and Model Building
Ch13 Methods for Quality Improvement: Statistical Process Control (Available Online)
Ch14 Time Series: Descriptive Analyses, Models, and Forecasting (Available Online)
Ch15 Nonparametric Statistics (Available Online)
作者：James T. McClave
現職：University of Florida
作者：P. George Benson
現職：College of Charleston
作者：Terry Sincich
現職：University of South Florida