Autore	Evans James R.
Edizione	[Fifth edition, international edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boston : , : Pearson, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (555 pages)
Disciplina	658.4033
Collana	Always learning
Soggetto topico	Industrial management - Statistical methods Statistical decision
ISBN	0-273-77574-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS -- Chapter 1 DATA AND BUSINESS DECISIONS -- Introduction -- Data in the Business Environment -- Sources and Types of Data -- Metrics and Data Classification -- Statistical Thinking -- Populations and Samples -- Using Microsoft Excel -- Basic Excel Skills -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.1 -- Copying Formulas and Cell References -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.2 -- Functions -- Skill‐Builder Exercise 1.3 -- Other Useful Excel Tips -- Excel Add-Ins -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.4 -- Displaying Data with Excel Charts -- Column and Bar Charts -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.5 -- Line Charts -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.6 -- Pie Charts -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.7 -- Area Charts -- Scatter Diagrams -- Skill‐Builder Exercise 1.8 -- Miscellaneous Excel Charts -- Ethics and Data Presentation -- Skill-Builder Exercise 1.9 -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: A Data Collection and Analysis Project -- Chapter 2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS -- Introduction -- Descriptive Statistics -- Frequency Distributions, Histograms, and Data Profiles -- Categorical Data -- Numerical Data -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.1 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.2 -- Data Profiles -- Descriptive Statistics for Numerical Data -- Measures of Location -- Measures of Dispersion -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.3 -- Measures of Shape -- Excel Descriptive Statistics Tool -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.4 -- Measures of Association -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.5 -- Descriptive Statistics for Categorical Data -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.6 -- Visual Display of Statistical Measures -- Box Plots -- Dot‐Scale Diagrams -- Skill‐Builder Exercise 2.7 -- Outliers -- Data Analysis Using PivotTables -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.8 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.9 -- Basic Concepts Review Questions. Problems and Applications -- Case: The Malcolm Baldrige Award -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.10 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 2.11 -- Chapter 3 PROBABILITY CONCEPTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS -- Introduction -- Basic Concepts of Probability -- Basic Probability Rules and Formulas -- Conditional Probability -- Skill-Builder Exercise 3.1 -- Random Variables and Probability Distributions -- Discrete Probability Distributions -- Expected Value and Variance of a Discrete Random Variable -- Skill-Builder Exercise 3.2 -- Bernoulli Distribution -- Binomial Distribution -- Poisson Distribution -- Skill-Builder Exercise 3.3 -- Continuous Probability Distributions -- Uniform Distribution -- Normal Distribution -- Skill-Builder Exercise 3.4 -- Triangular Distribution -- Exponential Distribution -- Probability Distributions in PHStat -- Other Useful Distributions -- Joint and Marginal Probability Distributions -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: Probability Analysis for Quality Measurements -- Chapter 4 SAMPLING AND ESTIMATION -- Introduction -- Statistical Sampling -- Sample Design -- Sampling Methods -- Errors in Sampling -- Random Sampling From Probability Distributions -- Sampling From Discrete Probability Distributions -- Skill‐Builder Exercise 4.1 -- Sampling From Common Probability Distributions -- A Statistical Sampling Experiment in Finance -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.2 -- Sampling Distributions and Sampling Error -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.3 -- Applying the Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- Sampling and Estimation -- Point Estimates -- Unbiased Estimators -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.4 -- Interval Estimates -- Confidence Intervals: Concepts and Applications -- Confidence Interval for the Mean with Known Population Standard Deviation -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.5. Confidence Interval for the Mean with Unknown Population Standard Deviation -- Confidence Interval for a Proportion -- Confidence Intervals for the Variance and Standard Deviation -- Confidence Interval for a Population Total -- Using Confidence Intervals for Decision Making -- Confidence Intervals and Sample Size -- Prediction Intervals -- Additional Types of Confidence Intervals -- Differences Between Means, Independent Samples -- Differences Between Means, Paired Samples -- Differences Between Proportions -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: Analyzing a Customer Survey -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.6 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.7 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.8 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 4.9 -- Chapter 5 HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE -- Introduction -- Basic Concepts of Hypothesis Testing -- Hypothesis Formulation -- Significance Level -- Decision Rules -- Spreadsheet Support for Hypothesis Testing -- One-Sample Hypothesis Tests -- One-Sample Tests for Means -- Using p-Values -- One-Sample Tests for Proportions -- One Sample Test for the Variance -- Type II Errors and the Power of A Test -- Skill-Builder Exercise 5.1 -- Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests -- Two-Sample Tests for Means -- Two-Sample Test for Means with Paired Samples -- Two-Sample Tests for Proportions -- Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals -- Test for Equality of Variances -- Skill-Builder Exercise 5.2 -- Anova: Testing Differences of Several Means -- Assumptions of ANOVA -- Tukey-Kramer Multiple Comparison Procedure -- Chi-Square Test for Independence -- Skill-Builder Exercise 5.3 -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: HATCO, Inc. -- Skill-Builder Exercise 5.4 -- Chapter 6 REGRESSION ANALYSIS -- Introduction -- Simple Linear Regression -- Skill-Builder Exercise 6.1 -- Least-Squares Regression. Skill-Builder Exercise 6.2 -- A Practical Application of Simple Regression to Investment Risk -- Simple Linear Regression in Excel -- Skill-Builder Exercise 6.3 -- Regression Statistics -- Regression as Analysis of Variance -- Testing Hypotheses for Regression Coefficients -- Confidence Intervals for Regression Coefficients -- Confidence and Prediction Intervals for X-Values -- Residual Analysis and Regression Assumptions -- Standard Residuals -- Skill‐Builder Exercise 6.4 -- Checking Assumptions -- Multiple Linear Regression -- Skill‐Builder Exercise 6.5 -- Interpreting Results from Multiple Linear Regression -- Correlation and Multicollinearity -- Building Good Regression Models -- Stepwise Regression -- Skill-Builder Exercise 6.6 -- Best-Subsets Regression -- The Art of Model Building in Regression -- Regression with Categorical Independent Variables -- Categorical Variables with More Than Two Levels -- Skill-Builder Exercise 6.7 -- Regression Models with Nonlinear Terms -- Skill-Builder Exercise 6.8 -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: Hatco -- Chapter 7 FORECASTING -- Introduction -- Qualitative and Judgmental Methods -- Historical Analogy -- The Delphi Method -- Indicators and Indexes for Forecasting -- Statistical Forecasting Models -- Forecasting Models for Stationary Time Series -- Moving Average Models -- Error Metrics and Forecast Accuracy -- Skill-Builder Exercise 7.1 -- Exponential Smoothing Models -- Skill-Builder Exercise 7.2 -- Forecasting Models for Time Series with a Linear Trend -- Regression-Based Forecasting -- Advanced Forecasting Models -- Autoregressive Forecasting Models -- Skill-Builder Exercise 7.3 -- Forecasting Models with Seasonality -- Incorporating Seasonality in Regression Models -- Skill-Builder Exercise 7.4 -- Forecasting Models with Trend and Seasonality. Regression Forecasting with Causal Variables -- Choosing and Optimizing Forecasting Models Using CB Predictor -- Skill-Builder Exercise 7.5 -- The Practice of Forecasting -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: Energy Forecasting -- Chapter 8 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL -- Introduction -- The Role of Statistics and Data Analysis in Quality Control -- Statistical Process Control -- Control Charts -- x- and R-Charts -- Skill-Builder Exercise 8.1 -- Analyzing Control Charts -- Sudden Shift in the Process Average -- Cycles -- Trends -- Hugging the Center Line -- Hugging the Control Limits -- Skill-Builder Exercise 8.2 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 8.3 -- Control Charts for Attributes -- Variable Sample Size -- Skill-Builder Exercise 8.4 -- Process Capability Analysis -- Skill-Builder Exercise 8.5 -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: Quality Control Analysis -- Part II: Decision Modeling and Analysis -- Chapter 9 BUILDING AND USING DECISION MODELS -- Introduction -- Decision Models -- Model Analysis -- What-If Analysis -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.1 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.2 -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.3 -- Model Optimization -- Tools for Model Building -- Logic and Business Principles -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.4 -- Common Mathematical Functions -- Data Fitting -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.5 -- Spreadsheet Engineering -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.6 -- Spreadsheet Modeling Examples -- New Product Development -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.7 -- Single Period Purchase Decisions -- Overbooking Decisions -- Project Management -- Model Assumptions, Complexity, and Realism -- Skill-Builder Exercise 9.8 -- Basic Concepts Review Questions -- Problems and Applications -- Case: An Inventory Management Decision Model -- Chapter 10 DECISION MODELS WITH UNCERTAINTY AND RISK -- Introduction. Spreadsheet Models with Random Variables.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910150216403321

Autore	Epstein, Richard A.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	San Diego : Academic press, c1995
Descrizione fisica	xv, 450 p ; 23 cm.
Disciplina	519.2
Soggetto topico	Games of chance (Mathematics) Statistical decision
ISBN	012240761X
Classificazione	AMS 60C05 QA271.E67
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991001433299707536