Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel and Student CD Package
by Levine, David M.; Stephan, David; Krehbiel, Timothy C.; Berenson, Mark L.Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
This book was the first to thoroughly integrate the use of Microsoft Excel as a tool for statistical analysis.The book focuses on the concepts of statistics with applications to the functional areas of business. It is rich in applications from accounting, finance, marketing, management and economics, covering data collection, tables and charts, probability, estimation, and more.For professionals, particularly managers, making financial analyses and decisions.
Table of Contents
| Introduction and Data Collection | |
| What is Statistics | |
| The Growth of Statistics and Information Technology | |
| Microsoft Excel: The Solution to a Problem or a Problem Itself | |
| Learning about Business Statistics | |
| Learning Statistics with Microsoft Excel | |
| Using Microsoft Excel in the Best Way Possible | |
| Learning Business Statistics using this Text | |
| How this Text is Organized | |
| The Importance of Collecting Data | |
| Identifying Sources of Data | |
| Types of Survey Sampling Methods | |
| Types of Data | |
| Evaluating Survey Worthiness | |
| Presenting Data in Tables and Charts | |
| Organizing Numerical Data | |
| Tables and Charts for Numerical Data | |
| Graphing Bivariate Numerical Data | |
| Tables and Charts for Categorical Data | |
| Tabulating and Graphing Bivariate Categorical Data | |
| Graphical Excellence | |
| Numerical Descriptive Measures | |
| Exploring Numerical Data and Their Properties | |
| Measures of Central Tendency, Variation, and Shape | |
| Obtaining Descriptive Summary Measures from a Population | |
| Exploratory Data Analysis | |
| The Coefficient of Correlation | |
| Pitfalls in Numerical Descriptive Measures and Ethical Issues | |
| CD-ROM Topic Obtaining Descriptive Summary Measures from a Frequency Distribution | |
| Basic Probability | |
| Basic Probability Concepts | |
| Conditional Probability | |
| Bayes' Theorem | |
| Ethical Issues and Probability | |
| CD-ROM Topic: Counting Rules | |
| Some Important Discrete Probability Distributions | |
| The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Random Variable | |
| Covariance and Its Application in Finance | |
| Binomial Distribution | |
| Hypergeometric Distribution | |
| Poisson Distribution | |
| CD ROM TopicUsing the Poisson Distribution to Approximate the Binomial Distribution | |
| The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions and Sampling Distributions | |
| The Normal Distribution | |
| Evaluating the Normality Assumption | |
| The Uniform Distribution | |
| The Exponential Distribution | |
| Introduction to Sampling Distributions | |
| Sampling Distribution of the Mean | |
| Sampling Distribution of the Proportion | |
| CD ROM TopicThe Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution | |
| CD ROM TopicSampling from Finite Populations | |
| Confidence Interval Estimation | |
| Confidence Interval Estimation of the Mean (sigma; Known) | |
| Confidence Interval Estimation of the Mean (sigma; Unknown) | |
| Confidence Interval Estimation for the Proportion | |
| Determining Sample Size | |
| Applications of Confidence Interval Estimation in Auditing | |
| Confidence Interval Estimation and Ethical Issues | |
| CD ROM TopicEstimation and Sample Size Determination for Finite Populations | |
| Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing | |
| Hypothesis-Testing Methodology | |
| ZTest of Hypothesis for the Mean (sigma; Known) | |
| One-Tailed Tests | |
| tTest of Hypothesis for the Mean (sigma; Unknown) | |
| ZTest of Hypothesis for the Proportion | |
| Potential Hypothesis-Testing Pitfalls and Ethical Issues | |
| CD ROM TopicThe Power of a Test | |
| Two Sample Tests | |
| Comparing Two Independent Samples: Tests for Differences in Two Means | |
| Comparing Two Related Samples: Tests for the Mean Difference | |
| ZTest for the Difference between Two Proportions | |
| FTest for Differences in Two Variances | |
| Analysis of Variance | |
| The Completely Randomized Design: One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
| The Factorial Design: Two-Way Analysis of Variance | |
| CD ROM TopicThe Randomized Block Design | |
| Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests | |
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