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Essential
Business Statistics
Edition ?
Angela McGrane, Joanne Smailes
0273643339
Paperback
288 pages
2000
Brief Description
This text provides an introduction to business statistics for business studies students. Specifically designed to provide support and build confidence in students where teacher-student time is at a premium, the book details the calculation and interpretation of the basic but generic numerical techniques used in business.
Features
- Exceptional Pedagogical features: aims, introduction, definitions, worked examples, review activities, additional exercises, spreadsheet exercises (EXCEL based) with hints for completion and screendumps, worked solution of review activities at end of chapter, answers to additional exercises.
- Class tested - this material has evolved from workbooks and handouts developed for the authors' course at UNN (highest ranking New University for teaching the last year's Sunday Times tables.
- Teacher's manual with EXCEL datasheets.
- Website with further exercises/spreadsheets.
- Suitable for single module courses.
- Allows for self-paced learning/testing.
Contents
1. Introduction.
2. Obtaining Data: Secondary Sources and Potential Errors.
3. Obtaining Data: Primary Sources and Survey Techniques.
4. Presenting Numerical Information: Charts and Tables.
5. Summarizing Data.
6. Index numbers.
7. Measures of Association Regression Analysis.
8. Time Series Analysis and Forecasting.
9. Probability.
10. Probability Distributions.
11. Estimation.
12. Testing Hypotheses.
13. Worked Examples.
14. References.
Appendices.
A. Mathematical Test and Related Instruction on Basic Mathematics.
B. Quick Reference Guide to Minitab Commands.
C. Quick Reference Guide to Lotus 1-2-3 Commands.
D. Significance of Rank (Spearman) Correlation Coefficient.
E. Chi-Squared Distribution.
F. T-Distribution.
G. Normal Distribution (Areas).
H. F-Distribution.
Companion Website:
http://www.booksites.net/smailesmcgraine
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