Introductory Business Statistics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiemann, Thomas K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Textbooks.

Mathematics.

Applied mathematics--Textbooks.

Applied mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] BCcampus [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book "Introductory Business Statistics" by Thomas K. Tiemann explores the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and most importantly sampling distributions. The author covers topics including descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics. Using real-world examples throughout the text, the author hopes to help students understand how statistics works, not just how to "get the right number."

Contents:

1. Descriptive statistics and frequency distributions

Descriptive statistics

2. The normal and t-distributions

Normal things

The t-distribution

3. Making estimates

Estimating the population mean

Estimating the population proportion

Estimating population variance

4. Hypothesis testing

The strategy of hypothesis testing

5. The t-test

6. F-test and one-way anova

Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

7. Some non-parametric tests

Do these populations have the same location? The Mann-Whitney U testTesting with matched pairs: the Wilcoxon signed ranks test.

Are these two variables related? Spearman's rank correlation

8. Regression basics

What is regression?

Correlation and covariance

Covariance, correlation, and regression

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on online resource

OCLC:

1000326092