Black's latest outstanding pedagogy of Business Statistics includes the use of extra problems called "Demonstration Problems" to provide additional insightand explanation to working problems, and presents concepts, topics, formulas,and application in a manner that is palatable to a vast audience and minimizes the use of "scary" formulas.Every chapter opens up with a vignette called a "Decision Dilemma" about real companies, data, and business issues. Solutions to these dilemmas are presented as a feature called "Decision Dilemma Solved."In this edition all cases and "Decision Dilemmas" are updated and revised and1/3 have been replaced for currency. There is also a significant number of additional problems and an extremely competitive collection of databases (containing real data) on: international stock markets, consumer food, international labor, financial, energy, agribusiness, 12-year gasoline, manufacturing, and hospital. INDICE: Preface xviiAbout the Author xxviiINTRODUCTION1 What Is Statistics02Decision Dilemma: Statistics Describe the State of Business in India€™s Countryside 032 Visualizing the Data 18Decision Dilemma: Container Shipping Companies 193 Describing Data Through Statistics 52Decision Dilemma: Laundry Statistics 535 Discrete Probability Distributions 142Decision Dilemma: Life with a Cell Phone 1436 Continuous Probability Distributions 184Decision Dilemma: The Cost of Human Resources 1857 Distributions of the Sample Mean and Sample Proportion and Sampling Techniques 222Decision Dilemma: What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers? 2238 Estimating Parameters for Single Populations 256DecisionDilemma: Compensation for Purchasing Managers 2579 Testing Hypotheses about Single Population Parameters 294Decision Dilemma: Word-of-Mouth Business Referrals and Influentials 29510 Analyzing the Differences in Two Populations 348Decision Dilemma: Online Shopping 34911 Analysis of Variance 408Decision Dilemma:Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign Self-Initiated Expatriates 40912 Introduction to Regression Analysis and Correlation 470Decision Dilemma: PredictingInternational Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big Mac 47113 Basic Multiple Regression Analysis 522Decision Dilemma: Are You Going to Hate Your New Job? 52314 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis 552Decision Dilemma: Determining Compensation for CEOs 55315 Forecasting 602Decision Dilemma: Forecasting Air Pollution 60316 Chi-Square Analysis 658Decision Dilemma: Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry 65917 Analyzing Data Using Nonparametric Statistics 684Decision Dilemma: How Is the Doughnut Business? 68518 Quality 734Decision Dilemma: Italy€™s Piaggio Makes a Comeback 73519 Decision Analysis C19-2Decision Dilemma: Decision Making at the CEO Level C19-3APPENDICESA Tables 779B Answers toSelected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 819GLOSSARY 829INDEX 839SUPPLEMENTS1 Summation Notation S1-12 Derivation of Simple Regression Formulas for Slope and y Intercept S2-13 Advanced Exponential Smoothing S3-1Exponential Smoothing with Trend Effects: Holt€™s Method S3-1Exponential Smoothing with Both Trend and Seasonality: Winter€™s Method S3-2Some Practice Problems S3-5
- ISBN: 978-1-118-09229-3
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 880
- Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
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- Idioma: Inglés