Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences.
Introductory Statistics includes innovative practical applications that make the text relevant and accessible, as well as collaborative exercises, technology integration problems, and statistics labs.
CD-ROM contains: Chapter 21: Ethics in statistical analysis and reporting -- applet exercises.
This text shows students the usefulness of statistics in the context of real-business problems.
The book bridges the gap between theory and applications, with most exercises formulated in an economic context. Its simplicity of style makes the book suitable for students at any level, and every chapter starts out with simple problems.
The book maintains the level of rigor of a more conventional textbook in business statistics but uses a more streamlined and intuitive approach.
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In this fourth Canadian edition of Business Statistics For Contemporary Decision Making authors Ken Black, Tiffany Bayley, and Ignacio Castillo uses current real-world data to equip students with the business analytics techniques and ...
At the end of the book, there are several projects that require the use of multiple statistical techniques that could be used as a take-home final exam or final project for a class.
Requiring no hand calculations, this highly applied book helps readers “get the story” from their data. They learn by doing, completing practice exercises at the end of each chapter.
Chapter 9 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 (a) Test statistic I —0.696. Can't reject H0 at the 10% level. [8.16] (b) Test statistic I —1.625. Can't reject H0 at the 10% level.