Basic business statistics : concepts and applications / Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Timothy C. Krehbiel

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- Organizing and visualizing data -- Numerical decriptive measures -- Basic probability -- Discrete probability distributions -- The normal distribution and other continuous distributions -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Confidence interval estimation -- Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests -- Two-sample tests -- Analysis of variance -- Chi-square tests and nonparametric tests -- Simple linear regression -- Introduction to multiple regression -- Multiple regression model building -- Time-series forecasting -- Statistical appliations in quality management -- A road map for analyzing data

This book gives an introduction to modern statistics, explaining its history and development, and its role in the world of business. It shows how to collect data, how to present it, and gives sample problems for the reader to work out.