The text provides a solid foundation for understanding and using statistics in business. The examples and exercises presented in this book are drawn from a wide variety of current sources, applications are offered in finance, economics, government, technology, operations and marketing-many with an international context. It also has the added flexibility to use both Excel and Minitab solutions. This new edition retains its global emphasis, maintaining its position of being at the vanguard of international issues in business.#1. Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
2. Probability
3. Random Variables
4. The Normal Distribution
5. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
6. Confidence Intervals
7. Hypothesis Testing
8. The Comparison of Two Populations
9. Analysis of Variance
10. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation
11. Multiple Regression
12. Forecasting,Time Series, and Random Numbers
13. Statistical Quality Control and Improvement
14. Nonparametric Methods and Chi-Square Tests
15. Bayesian Statistics and Decision Analysis#top