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- ISBN-10 : 1118024117
- ISBN-13 : 978-1118024119
- Author: Ken Black
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Table of contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHANGES FOR THE SEVENTH EDITION
- VIDEOTAPE TUTORIALS BY KEN BLACK
- FEATURES AND BENEFITS
- WILEYPLUS
- ANCILLARY TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- About the Author
- UNIT I: INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Statistics
- Statistics Describe the State of Business in India’s Countryside
- 1.1 STATISTICS IN BUSINESS
- 1.2 BASIC STATISTICAL CONCEPTS
- 1.3 VARIABLES AND DATA
- 1.4 DATA MEASUREMENT
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: DIGIORNO PIZZA: INTRODUCING A FROZEN PIZZA TO COMPETE WITH CARRY-OUT
- CHAPTER 2: Charts and Graphs
- Container Shipping Companies
- 2.1 FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS
- 2.2 QUANTITATIVE DATA GRAPHS
- 2.3 QUALITATIVE DATA GRAPHS
- 2.4 CHARTS AND GRAPHS FOR TWO VARIABLES
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: SOAP COMPANIES DO BATTLE
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 3: Descriptive Statistics
- Laundry Statistics
- 3.1 MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY: UNGROUPED DATA
- 3.2 MEASURES OF VARIABILITY: UNGROUPED DATA
- 3.3 MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND VARIABILITY: GROUPED DATA
- 3.4 MEASURES OF SHAPE
- 3.5 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ON THE COMPUTER
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: COCA-COLA DEVELOPS THE AFRICAN MARKET
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 4: Probability
- Equity of the Sexes in the Workplace
- 4.1 INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY
- 4.2 METHODS OF ASSIGNING PROBABILITIES
- 4.3 STRUCTURE OF PROBABILITY
- 4.4 MARGINAL, UNION, JOINT, AND CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES
- 4.5 ADDITION LAWS
- 4.6 MULTIPLICATION LAWS
- 4.7 CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY
- 4.8 REVISION OF PROBABILITIES: BAYES’ RULE
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE MAKES A “TOTAL” EFFORT
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Statistics
- UNIT II: DISTRIBUTIONS AND SAMPLING
- CHAPTER 5: Discrete Distributions
- Life with a Cell Phone
- 5.1 DISCRETE VERSUS CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS
- 5.2 DESCRIBING A DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION
- 5.3 BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
- 5.4 POISSON DISTRIBUTION
- 5.5 HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: WHOLE FOODS MARKET GROWS THROUGH MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 6: Continuous Distributions
- The Cost of Human Resources
- 6.1 THE UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION
- 6.2 NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
- 6.3 USING THE NORMAL CURVE TO APPROXIMATE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION PROBLEMS
- 6.4 EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: MERCEDES GOES AFTER YOUNGER BUYERS
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions
- What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers?
- 7.1 SAMPLING
- 7.2 SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF
- 7.3 SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: SHELL ATTEMPTS TO RETURN TO PREMIERE STATUS
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 5: Discrete Distributions
- UNIT III: MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT POPULATION PARAMETERS
- CHAPTER 8: Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations
- Compensation for Purchasing Managers
- 8.1 ESTIMATING THE POPULATION MEAN USING THE z STATISTIC (σ KNOWN)
- 8.2 ESTIMATING THE POPULATION MEAN USING THE t STATISTIC (σ UNKNOWN)
- 8.3 ESTIMATING THE POPULATION PROPORTION
- 8.4 ESTIMATING THE POPULATION VARIANCE
- 8.5 ESTIMATING SAMPLE SIZE
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: THE CONTAINER STORE
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 9: Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations
- Word-of-Mouth Business Referrals and Influentials
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION TO HYPOTHESIS TESTING
- 9.2 TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT A POPULATION MEAN USING THE z STATISTIC (σ KNOWN)
- 9.3 TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT A POPULATION MEAN USING THE t STATISTIC (σ UNKNOWN)
- 9.4 TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT A PROPORTION
- 9.5 TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT A VARIANCE
- 9.6 SOLVING FOR TYPE II ERRORS
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: FRITO-LAY TARGETS THE HISPANIC MARKET
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 10: Statistical Inferences about Two Populations
- 10.1 HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE IN TWO MEANS USING THE z STATISTIC (POPULATION VARIANCES KNOWN)
- 10.2 HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE IN TWO MEANS: INDEPENDENT SAMPLES AND POPULATION VARIANCES UNKNOWN
- 10.3 STATISTICAL INFERENCES FOR TWO RELATED POPULATIONS
- 10.4 STATISTICAL INFERENCES ABOUT TWO POPULATION PROPORTIONS, p 1 – p 2
- 10.5 TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT TWO POPULATION VARIANCES
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: SEITZ CORPORATION: PRODUCING QUALITY GEAR-DRIVEN AND LINEAR-MOTION PRODUCTS
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 11: Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments
- Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign Self-Initiated Expatriates
- 11.1 INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
- 11.2 THE COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED DESIGN (ONE-WAY ANOVA)
- 11.3 MULTIPLE COMPARISON TESTS
- 11.4 THE RANDOMIZED BLOCK DESIGN
- 11.5 A FACTORIAL DESIGN (TWO-WAY ANOVA)
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: THE CLARKSON COMPANY: A DIVISION OF TYCO INTERNATIONAL
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 8: Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations
- UNIT IV: REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING
- CHAPTER 12: Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation
- Predicting International Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big Mac
- 12.1 CORRELATION
- 12.2 INTRODUCTION TO SIMPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- 12.3 DETERMINING THE EQUATION OF THE REGRESSION LINE
- 12.4 RESIDUAL ANALYSIS
- 12.5 STANDARD ERROR OF THE ESTIMATE
- 12.6 COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION
- 12.7 HYPOTHESIS TESTS FOR THE SLOPE OF THE REGRESSION MODEL AND TESTING THE OVERALL MODEL
- 12.8 ESTIMATION
- 12.9 USING REGRESSION TO DEVELOP A FORECASTING TREND LINE
- 12.10 INTERPRETING THE OUTPUT
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: DELTA WIRE USES TRAINING AS A WEAPON
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 13: Multiple Regression Analysis
- Are You Going to Hate Your New Job?
- 13.1 THE MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL
- 13.2 SIGNIFICANCE TESTS OF THE REGRESSION MODEL AND ITS COEFFICIENTS
- 13.3 RESIDUALS, STANDARD ERROR OF THE ESTIMATE, AND R 2
- 13.4 INTERPRETING MULTIPLE REGRESSION COMPUTER OUTPUT
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: STARBUCKS INTRODUCES DEBIT CARD
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 14: Building Multiple Regression Models
- Determining Compensation for CEOs
- 14.1 NONLINEAR MODELS: MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATION
- 14.2 INDICATOR (DUMMY) VARIABLES
- 14.3 MODEL-BUILDING: SEARCH PROCEDURES
- 14.4 MULTICOLLINEARITY
- 14.5 LOGISTIC REGRESSION
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: VIRGINIA SEMICONDUCTOR
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 15: Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers
- Forecasting Air Pollution
- 15.1 INTRODUCTION TO FORECASTING
- 15.2 SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES
- 15.3 TREND ANALYSIS
- 15.4 SEASONAL EFFECTS
- 15.5 AUTOCORRELATION AND AUTOREGRESSION
- 15.6 INDEX NUMBERS
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: DEBOURGH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 12: Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation
- UNIT V: NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS AND QUALITY
- CHAPTER 16: Analysis of Categorical Data
- Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry
- 16.1 CHI-SQUARE GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST
- 16.2 CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS: CHI-SQUARE TEST OF INDEPENDENCE
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASE
- CASE: FOOT LOCKER IN THE SHOE MIX
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 17: Nonparametric Statistics
- How Is the Doughnut Business?
- 17.1 RUNS TEST
- 17.2 MANN-WHITNEY U TEST
- 17.3 WILCOXON MATCHED-PAIRS SIGNED RANK TEST
- 17.4 KRUSKAL-WALLIS TEST
- 17.5 FRIEDMAN TEST
- 17.6 SPEARMAN’S RANK CORRELATION
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: SCHWINN
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 18: Statistical Quality Control
- Italy’s Piaggio Makes a Comeback
- 18.1 INTRODUCTION TO QUALITY CONTROL
- 18.2 PROCESS ANALYSIS
- 18.3 CONTROL CHARTS
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULAS
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: ROBOTRON-ELOTHERM
- USING THE COMPUTER
- CHAPTER 16: Analysis of Categorical Data
- APPENDIX A: Tables
- APPENDIX B: Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
- CHAPTER 19: Decision Analysis
- Decision Making at the CEO Level
- 19.1 THE DECISION TABLE AND DECISION MAKING UNDER CERTAINTY
- 19.2 DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
- 19.3 DECISION MAKING UNDER RISK
- 19.4 REVISING PROBABILITIES IN LIGHT OF SAMPLE INFORMATION
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- FORMULA
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
- ANALYZING THE DATABASES
- CASE: FLETCHER-TERRY: ON THE CUTTING EDGE
- SUPPLEMENT 1: SUMMATION NOTATION
- SUPPLEMENT 2: DERIVATION OF SIMPLE REGRESSION FORMULAS FOR SLOPE AND Y INTERCEPT
- SUPPLEMENT 3: ADVANCED EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING
- EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING WITH TREND EFFECTS:: HOLT’s METHOD
- EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING WITH BOTH TREND AND SEASONALITY:: WINTER’s METHOD
- SOME PRACTICE PROBLEMS