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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299780403321

Autore

Moy Ronald L

Titolo

Study Guide for Statistics for Business and Financial Economics : A Supplement to the Textbook by Cheng-Few Lee, John C. Lee and Alice C. Lee / / by Ronald L. Moy, Li-Shya Chen, Lie Jane Kao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-11997-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 361 p. 33 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

330.015195

Soggetti

Statistics

Macroeconomics

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Applications of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Data Collection and Presentation -- Frequency Distribution and Data Analyses -- Numerical Summary Measures -- Probability Concepts and their Analyses -- Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions -- The Normal and Lognormal Distributions -- Sampling and Sampling Distributions -- Other Continuous Distributions and Moments for Distributions -- Hypothesis Testing -- Analysis of Variance and Chi-Square Tests -- Simple Linear Regression and the Correlation Coefficient -- Simple Linear Regression and Correlation: Analyses and Applications -- Multiple Linear Regression -- Other Topics in Applied Regression Analysis -- Nonparametric Statistics -- Time-Series: Analysis, Model and Forecasting -- Index Numbers and Stock Market Indexes -- Sampling Surveys -- Statistical Decision Theory.

Sommario/riassunto

This Study Guide accompanies Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd Ed. (Springer, 2013), which is a business statistics



textbook that uses finance, economics, and accounting data throughout the book. This Study Guide contains unique chapter reviews for each chapter in the textbook, formulas, examples, and additional exercises to enhance topics and their application. Solutions are included so students can evaluate their own understanding of the material. With more real-life data sets than the other books on the market, this study guide and the textbook that it accompanies, give readers all the tools they need to learn material in class and on their own. The topics covered are immediately applicable to facing uncertainty and the science of good decision making in financial analysis, econometrics, auditing, production, operations, and marketing research. Students in business degree programs will find this material particularly useful in their other courses and future work.