Business statistics : for contemporary decision-making /
Ken Black.
- Tenth edition.
- xxii, 810 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes index. "Asia edition."
Introduction to statistics and business analytics -- Visualizing data with charts and graphs -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Discrete distributions -- Continuous distributions -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Statistical inference: estimation for single populations -- Statistical inference: hypothesis testing for single populations -- Statistical inferences about two populations -- Analysis of variance and design of experiments -- Simple regression analysis and correlation -- Multiple regression analysis -- Building multiple regression models -- Time-series forecasting and index numbers -- Analysis of categorical data -- Nonparametric statistics -- Statistical quality control -- Decision analysis.
"The tenth edition of Business Statistics for Contemporary Decision Making continues the tradition of presenting and explaining the concepts and principles of business statistics through the use of clear, complete, student-friendly pedagogy within the context and framework of business analytics. The author and Wiley have vast ancillary resources available through WileyPLUS with which to complement the text in helping instructors effectively deliver this subject matter and in assisting students in their learning. With WileyPLUS instructors have far greater latitude in developing and delivering their course than ever before. a number of important changes and additions to the tenth edition. edition have been updated and changed as needed to reflect today's business world. To meet the challenges, opportunities, and potentialities presented to business decision makers through the advent of big data, a new field of business methodology and quantitative investigation, business analytics, has arisen. Realizing the potential of this new approach, we have infused the tenth edition with the language of business analytics along with its definitions, approaches, and explanations to better assist the student in understanding business analytics and the role that business statistics plays in it"-- Provided by publisher