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Business statistics : a first course / / David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat, David F. Stephan
| Business statistics : a first course / / David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat, David F. Stephan |
| Autore | Levine David M. <1946-> |
| Edizione | [Seventh, Global edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables |
| Disciplina | 519.5 |
| Collana | Always learning |
| Soggetto topico | Commercial statistics |
| ISBN | 1-292-09602-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Getting Started: Important Things to Learn First -- Using Statistics: "You Cannot Escape from Data" -- GS.1 Statistics: A Way of Thinking -- GS.2 Data: What is it? -- Statistics -- GS.3 The Changing Face of Statistics -- Business Analytics -- "Big Data" -- Integral Role of Software in Statistics -- GS.4 Statistics: An Important Part of Your Business Education -- Making Best Use of This Book -- Making Best Use of the Software Guides -- References -- Key Terms -- Excel Guide -- EG.1 Getting Started with Microsoft Excel -- EG.2 Entering Data -- Minitab Guide -- MG.1 Getting Started with Minitab -- MG.2 Entering Data -- Chapter 1: Defining and Collecting Data -- Using Statistics: Beginning of the End ... Or the End of the Beginning? -- 1.1 Defining Variables -- Classifying Variables by Type -- 1.2 Collecting Data -- Data Sources -- Populations and Samples -- Structured Versus Unstructured Data -- Electronic Formats and Encodings -- Data Cleaning -- Recoding Variables -- 1.3 Types of Sampling Methods -- Simple Random Sample -- Systematic Sample -- Stratified Sample -- Cluster Sample -- 1.4 Types of Survey Errors -- Coverage Error -- Nonresponse Error -- Sampling Error -- Measurement Error -- Ethical Issues About Surveys -- Think About This: New Media Surveys/Old Sampling Problems -- Using Statistics: Beginning of the End... Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter1 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- CardioGood Fitness -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Learning with the Digital Cases -- Chapter 1 Excel Guide -- EG1.1 Defining Variables -- EG1.2 Collecting Data -- EG1.3 Types of Sampling Methods -- Chapter 1 Minitab Guide -- MG1.1 Defining Variables -- MG1.2 Collecting Data.
MG1.3 Types of Sampling Methods -- Chapter 2: Organizing and Visualizing Variables -- Using Statistics: The Choice is Yours -- 2.1 Organizing Categorical Variables -- The Summary Table -- The Contingency Table -- 2.2 Organizing Numerical Variables -- The Ordered Array -- The Frequency Distribution -- Classes and Excel Bins -- The Relative Frequency Distribution and the Percentage Distribution -- The Cumulative Distribution -- Stacked and Unstacked Data -- 2.3 Visualizing Categorical Variables -- The Bar Chart -- The Pie Chart -- The Pareto Chart -- The Side-by-Side Bar Chart -- 2.4 Visualizing Numerical Variables -- The Stem-and-Leaf Display -- The Histogram -- The Percentage Polygon -- The Cumulative Percentage Polygon (Ogive) -- 2.5 Visualizing Two Numerical Variables -- The Scatter Plot -- The Time-Series Plot -- 2.6 Organizing and Visualizing a Set of Variables -- Multidimensional Contingency Tables -- Data Discovery -- 2.7 The Challenge in Organizing and Visualizing Variables -- Obscuring Data -- Creating False Impressions -- Chartjunk -- Best Practices for Constructing Visualizations -- Using Statistics: The Choice is Yours, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 2 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- The Choice is Yours Follow-Up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 2 Excel Guide -- EG2.1 Organizing Categorical Variables -- EG2.2 Organizing Numerical Variables -- EG2.3 Visualizing Categorical Variables -- EG2.4 Visualizing Numerical Variables -- EG2.5 Visualizing Two Numerical Variables -- EG2.6 Organizing and Visualizing a Set of Variables -- Chapter 2 Minitab Guide -- MG2.1 Organizing Categorical Variables -- MG2.2 Organizing Numerical Variables. MG2.3 Visualizing Categorical Variables -- MG2.4 Visualizing Numerical Variables -- MG2.5 Visualizing Two Numerical Variables -- MG2.6 Organizing and Visualizing a Set of Variables -- Chapter 3: Numerical Descriptive Measures -- Using Statistics: More Descriptive Choices -- 3.1 Central Tendency -- The Mean -- The Median -- The Mode -- 3.2 Variation and Shape -- The Range -- The Variance and the Standard Deviation -- The Coefficient of Variation -- Z Scores -- Shape: Skewness -- Shape: Kurtosis -- 3.3 Exploring Numerical Data -- Quartiles -- The Interquartile Range -- The Five-Number Summary -- The Boxplot -- 3.4 Numerical Descriptive Measures for a Population -- The Population Mean -- The Population Variance and Standard Deviation -- The Empirical Rule -- The Chebyshev Rule -- 3.5 The Covariance and the Coefficient of Correlation -- The Covariance -- The Coefficient of Correlation -- 3.6 Descriptive Statistics: Pitfalls and Ethical Issues -- Using Statistics: More Descriptive Choices, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 3 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- More Descriptive Choices Follow-up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 3 Excel Guide -- EG3.1 Central Tendency -- EG3.2 Variation and Shape -- EG3.3 Exploring Numerical Data -- EG3.4 Numerical Descriptive Measures for a Population -- EG3.5 The Covariance and the Coefficient of Correlation -- Chapter 3 Minitab Guide -- MG3.1 Central Tendency -- MG3.2 Variation and Shape -- MG3.3 Exploring Numerical Data -- MG3.4 Numerical Descriptive Measures for a Population -- MG3.5 The Covariance and the Coefficient of Correlation -- Chapter 4: Basic Probability -- Using Statistics: Possibilities at M&R Electronics World. 4.1 Basic Probability Concepts -- Events and Sample Spaces -- Contingency Tables and Venn Diagrams -- Simple Probability -- Joint Probability -- Marginal Probability -- General Addition Rule -- 4.2 Conditional Probability -- Computing Conditional Probabilities -- Decision Trees -- Independence -- Multiplication Rules -- Marginal Probability Using the General Multiplication Rule -- 4.3 Bayes' Theorem -- Think About This Divine Providence and Spam -- 4.4 Counting Rules -- 4.5 Ethical Issues and Probability -- Using Statistics: Possibilities at M&R Electronics World, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 4 -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 4 Excel Guide -- EG4.1 Basic Probability Concepts -- EG4.2 Conditional Probability -- EG4.3 Bayes' Theorem -- EG4.4 Counting Rules -- Chapter 4 Minitab Guide -- MG4.1 Basic Probability Concepts -- MG4.2 Conditional Probability -- MG4.3 Bayes' Theorem -- MG4.4 Counting Rules -- Chapter 5: Discrete Probability Distributions -- Using Statistics: Events of Interest at Ricknel Home Centers -- 5.1 The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Variable -- Expected Value of a Discrete Variable -- Variance and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Variable -- 5.2 Binomial Distribution -- 5.3 Poisson Distribution -- Using Statistics: Events of Interest at Ricknel Home Centers, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 5 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- Chapter 5 Excel Guide -- EG5.1 The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Variable -- EG5.2 Binomial Distribution -- EG5.3 Poisson Distribution -- Chapter 5 Minitab Guide. MG5.1 The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Variable -- MG5.2 B inomial Distribution -- MG5.3 Poisson Distribution -- Chapter 6: The Normal Distribution -- Using Statistics: Normal Downloading at MyTVLab -- 6.1 Continuous Probability Distributions -- 6.2 The Normal Distribution -- Computing Normal Probabilities -- Finding X Values -- Visual Explorations: Exploring the Normal Distribution -- Think About This What is Normal? -- 6.3 Evaluating Normality -- Comparing Data Characteristics to Theoretical Properties -- Constructing the Normal Probability Plot -- Using Statistics: Normal Downloading at MyTVLab, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 6 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- More Descriptive Choices Follow-up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 6 Excel Guide -- EG6.1 Continuous Probability Distributions -- EG6.2 The Normal Distribution -- EG6.3 Evaluating Normality -- Chapter 6 Minitab Guide -- MG6.1 Continuous Probability Distributions -- MG6.2 The Normal Distribution -- MG6.3 Evaluating Normality -- Chapter 7: Sampling Distributions -- Using Statistics: Sampling Oxford Cereals -- 7.1 Sampling Distributions -- 7.2 Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- The Unbiased Property of the Sample Mean -- Standard Error of the Mean -- Sampling from Normally Distributed Populations -- Sampling from Non-normally Distributed Populations-The Central Limit Theorem -- Visual Explorations: Exploring Sampling Distributions -- 7.3 Sampling Distribution of the Proportion -- Using Statistics: Sampling Oxford Cereals, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 7 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services. Digital Case. |
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| Boston : , : Pearson, , [2016] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Statistics for managers using Microsoft Excel / / David M. Levine, David Stephan, Kathryn A. Szabat
| Statistics for managers using Microsoft Excel / / David M. Levine, David Stephan, Kathryn A. Szabat |
| Autore | Levine David M. <1946-> |
| Edizione | [Eight, Global edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (721 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Disciplina | 005.369 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154942403321 |
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Levine David M. <1946->
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| Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Statistics for managers using Microsoft excel / / David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn A. Szabat
| Statistics for managers using Microsoft excel / / David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn A. Szabat |
| Autore | Levine David M. <1946-> |
| Edizione | [Seventh, global edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (792 pages) : color illustrations, photographs |
| Disciplina | 005.369 |
| Collana | Always learning |
| ISBN | 0-273-78774-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Statistics for Managers -- About the Authors -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Let's Get Started: Big Things to Learn First -- Using Statistics: "You Cannot Escape from Data" -- LGS.1 A Way of Thinking -- LGS.2 Define Your Terms! -- LGS.3 Business Analytics: the Changing Face of Statistics -- "Big Data" -- Statistics: An Important Part of Your Business Education -- LGS.4 How to Use This Book -- References -- Key Terms -- Excel Guide -- EG.1. What Is Microsoft Excel? -- EG2. How Can I Use Excel with This Book? -- EG3. What Excel Skills Does This Book Require? -- EG4. Getting Ready to Use Excel with This Book -- EG5. Entering Data -- EG6. Opening and Saving Workbooks -- EG7. Creating and Copying Worksheets -- EG8. Printing Worksheets -- Defining and Collecting Data -- Using Statistics: Beginning of the End ... Or the End of the Beginning? -- Establishing the Variable Type -- Measurement Scales for Variables -- Nominal and Ordinal Scales -- Interval and Ratio Scales -- Collecting Data -- Data Sources -- Populations and Samples -- Data Cleaning -- Recoded Variables -- Types of Sampling Methods -- Simple Random Sample -- Systematic Sample -- Stratified Sample -- Cluster Sample -- Types of Survey Errors -- Coverage Error -- Nonresponse Error -- Sampling Error -- Measurement Error -- Ethical Issues About Surveys -- Think About This: New Media Surveys/Old Sampling Problems -- Using Statistics: Beginning ... Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 1 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- CardioGood Fitness -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Learning with the Digital Cases -- Chapter 1 Excel Guide -- EG1.1 Establishing the Variable Type -- EG1.2 Measurement Scales for Variables -- EG1.3 Collecting Data -- EG1.4 Types of Sampling Methods.
EG1.5 Types of Survey Errors -- Organizing and Visualizing Data -- Using Statistics: The Choice Is Yours -- How to Proceed with This Chapter -- Organizing Categorical Data -- The Summary Table -- The Contingency Table -- Organizing Numerical Data -- Stacked and Unstacked Data -- The Ordered Array -- The Frequency Distribution -- Classes and Excel Bins -- The Relative Frequency Distribution and the Percentage Distribution -- The Cumulative Distribution -- Visualizing Categorical Data -- The Bar Chart -- The Pie Chart -- The Pareto Chart -- The Side-by-Side Bar Chart -- Visualizing Numerical Data -- The Stem-and-Leaf Display -- The Histogram -- The Percentage Polygon -- The Cumulative Percentage Polygon (Ogive) -- Visualizing Two Numerical Variables -- The Scatter Plot -- The Time-Series Plot -- Challenges in Visualizing Data -- Chartjunk -- Guidelines for Developing Visualizations -- Organizing and Visualizing Many Variables -- Multidimensional Contingency Tables -- Adding Numerical Variables -- Drill-down -- PivotTables and Business Analytics -- Real-World Business Analytics and Microsoft Excel -- Using Statistics: The Choice Is Yours, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 2 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- The Choice Is Yours Follow-up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 2 Excel Guide -- EG2.1 Organizing Categorical Data -- EG2.2 Organizing Numerical Data -- EG2.3 Visualizing Categorical Data -- EG2.4 Visualizing Numerical Data -- EG2.5 Visualizing Two Numerical Variables -- EG2.6 Challenges in Visualizing Data -- EG2.7 Organizing and Visualizing Many Variables -- EG2.8 PivotTables and Business Analytics -- Numerical Descriptive Measures -- Using Statistics: More Descriptive Choices. Central Tendency -- The Mean -- The Median -- The Mode -- The Geometric Mean -- Variation and Shape -- The Range -- The Variance and the Standard Deviation -- The Coefficient of Variation -- Z Scores -- Shape: Skewness and Kurtosis -- Visual Explorations: Exploring Descriptive Statistics -- Exploring Numerical Data -- Quartiles -- The Interquartile Range -- The Five-Number Summary -- The Boxplot -- Numerical Descriptive Measures for a Population -- The Population Mean -- The Population Variance and Standard Deviation -- The Empirical Rule -- The Chebyshev Rule -- The Covariance and the Coefficient of Correlation -- The Covariance -- The Coefficient of Correlation -- Descriptive Statistics: Pitfalls and Ethical Issues -- Using Statistics: More Descriptive Choices, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 3 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- More Descriptive Choices Follow-up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 3 Excel Guide -- EG3.1 Central Tendency -- EG3.2 Variation and Shape -- EG3.3 Exploring Numerical Data -- EG3.4 Numerical Descriptive Measures for a Population -- EG3.5 The Covariance and the Coefficient of Correlation -- Basic Probability -- Using Statistics: Possibilities at M&R Electronics World -- Basic Probability Concepts -- Events and Sample Spaces -- Contingency Tables -- Simple Probability -- Joint Probability -- Marginal Probability -- General Addition Rule -- Conditional Probability -- Computing Conditional Probabilities -- Decision Trees -- Independence -- Multiplication Rules -- Marginal Probability Using the General Multiplication Rule -- Bayes' Theorem -- Think About This: Divine Providence and Spam -- Ethical Issues and Probability -- Counting Rules (online). Using Statistics: Possibilities at M&R Electronics World, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 4 -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- The Choice Is Yours Follow-up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 4 Excel Guide -- EG4.1 Basic Probability Concepts -- EG4.2 Conditional Probability -- EG4.3 Bayes' Theorem -- Discrete Probability Distributions -- Using Statistics: Events of Interest at Ricknel Home Centers -- The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Variable -- Expected Value of a Discrete Variable -- Variance and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Variable -- Covariance of a Probability Distribution and Its Application in Finance -- Covariance -- Expected Value, Variance, and Standard Deviation of the Sum of Two Variables -- Portfolio Expected Return and Portfolio Risk -- Binomial Distribution -- Poisson Distribution -- Hypergeometric Distribution -- Using Statistics: Events of Interest at Ricknel Home Centers, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 5 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- Chapter 5 Excel Guide -- EG5.1 The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Variable -- EG5.2 Covariance of a Probability Distribution and Its Application in Finance -- EG5.3 Binomial Distribution -- EG5.4 Poisson Distribution -- EG5.5 Hypergeometric Distribution -- The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions -- Using Statistics: Normal Downloading at MyTVLab -- Continuous Probability Distributions -- The Normal Distribution -- Computing Normal Probabilities -- Finding X Values -- Visual Explorations: Exploring the Normal Distribution -- Think About This: What Is Normal? -- Evaluating Normality. Comparing Data Characteristics to Theoretical Properties -- Constructing the Normal Probability Plot -- The Uniform Distribution -- The Exponential Distribution -- The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution (online) -- Using Statistics: Normal Downloading at MyTVLab, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 6 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- CardioGood Fitness -- More Descriptive Choices Follow-up -- Clear Mountain State Student Surveys -- Chapter 6 Excel Guide -- EG6.1 Continuous Probability Distributions -- EG6.2 The Normal Distribution -- EG6.3 Evaluating Normality -- EG6.4 The Uniform Distribution -- EG6.5 The Exponential Distribution -- Sampling Distributions -- Using Statistics: Sampling Oxford Cereals -- Sampling Distributions -- Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- The Unbiased Property of the Sample Mean -- Standard Error of the Mean -- Sampling from Normally Distributed Populations -- Sampling from Non-normally Distributed Populations-The Central Limit Theorem -- Visual Explorations: Exploring Sampling Distributions -- Sampling Distribution of the Proportion -- Sampling from Finite Populations (online) -- Using Statistics: Sampling Oxford Cereals, Revisited -- Summary -- References -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Checking Your Understanding -- Chapter Review Problems -- Cases for Chapter 7 -- Managing Ashland MultiComm Services -- Digital Case -- Chapter 7 Excel Guide -- EG7.1 Sampling Distributions -- EG7.2 Sampling Distribution of the Mean -- EG7.3 Sampling Distribution of the Proportion -- Confidence Interval Estimation -- Using Statistics: Getting Estimates at Ricknel Home Centers -- Confidence Interval Estimate for the Mean (σ Known) -- Can You Ever Know the Population Standard Deviation?. Confidence Interval Estimate for the Mean (σ Known). |
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Levine David M. <1946->
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| Boston : , : Pearson, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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