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Essential statistics for economics, business and management / Teresa Bradley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.Description: x, 663 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780470850794 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0470850795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 BRA
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Partial contents:
Data collection and its graphical presentation -- Descriptive statistics Regression and correlation: introduction -- Probability -- Introduction to probability distributions -- Sampling distributions for means and proportions -- Confidence intervals for means and proportions -- Tests of hypothesis for means and proportions -- Inference from small samples. Confidence intervals and tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Chi-squared tests -- Regression analysis -- Appendix A: technicalities and conventions for defining class intervals, mid-interval, widths, limits, boundaries -- Appendix B: formulae for calculating the quartiles for group data -- Appendix C: outline of derivation of formulae (3.2) and (3.3) for the slope and intercept of the least-squares line, Y=a+bX -- Appendix D: brief review of the mathematics for the binomial -- Appendix E: the number e -- Appendix F: calculation of mean and variance of proportions by expected values -- Appendix G: confidence intervals for means and proportions -- Appendix H: degrees of freedom -- Appendix I: notes on summations and double summations -- Appendix J: expressing the estimates of variance as sums of squares divided by degrees of freedom in their simplest form -- Appendix K: sums of squares for the one-way ANOVA -- Appendix L: fitted values and residuals -- Appendix M: sums of squares identity for two-way ANOVA.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Essential Statistics for Economics, Business and Management is aimed at introductory undergraduate courses and assumes no prior knowledge of statistics. It will also be highly relevant for the statistics component of courses in quantitative methods. The style of the text is similar to that of the highly successful Essential Mathematics for Economics and Business by Teresa Bradley and Paul Patton, with many worked examples integrated throughout.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Data collection and its graphical presentation -- Descriptive statistics Regression and correlation: introduction -- Probability -- Introduction to probability distributions -- Sampling distributions for means and proportions -- Confidence intervals for means and proportions -- Tests of hypothesis for means and proportions -- Inference from small samples. Confidence intervals and tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Chi-squared tests -- Regression analysis -- Appendix A: technicalities and conventions for defining class intervals, mid-interval, widths, limits, boundaries -- Appendix B: formulae for calculating the quartiles for group data -- Appendix C: outline of derivation of formulae (3.2) and (3.3) for the slope and intercept of the least-squares line, Y=a+bX -- Appendix D: brief review of the mathematics for the binomial -- Appendix E: the number e -- Appendix F: calculation of mean and variance of proportions by expected values -- Appendix G: confidence intervals for means and proportions -- Appendix H: degrees of freedom -- Appendix I: notes on summations and double summations -- Appendix J: expressing the estimates of variance as sums of squares divided by degrees of freedom in their simplest form -- Appendix K: sums of squares for the one-way ANOVA -- Appendix L: fitted values and residuals -- Appendix M: sums of squares identity for two-way ANOVA.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Data collection and its graphical presentation
  • 1.1 Introduction to statistics
  • 1.2 Data collection, samples, surveys and experiments
  • 1.3 Some sources of statistical data
  • 1.4 Sorting and classifying data
  • 1.5 Bar charts and pie chart
  • Plotting in Excel
  • 1.6 Graphs: histograms and Ogives
  • Graphs in Excel
  • 1.7 Line and Lorenz graphs
  • 1.8 Graphical misrepresentation of data
  • 2 Descriptive statistics
  • 2.1 Summary statistics for raw data: mean, quartiles and mode
  • 2.2 Summary statistics for grouped data: mean, quartiles and mode
  • 2.3 Measures of dispersion for raw data. Variance, QD, IQR
  • 2.4 Measures of dispersion for grouped data. Variance, QD, IQR
  • 2.5 Use of calculator for descriptive statistics
  • 2.6 Other descriptive statistics. CV, skewness and box plots
  • 2.7 Descriptive statistics in Excel
  • 3 Regression and correlation Introduction
  • 3.1 Introduction to regression. Scatter plots and lines
  • 3.2 The least-squares line
  • Criteria and equation for a best fit line
  • 3.3 Excel: XY (Scatter) plots, least-squares line and formulae
  • 3.4 Coefficient of Determination and Correlation
  • 3.5 Rank correlation
  • Calculate and interpret rank correlation
  • 3.6 Use the calculator for regression and correlation
  • 3.7 Why bother with formulae?
  • 4 Probability
  • 4.1 Introduction to probability
  • 4.2 The multiplication and addition rules for probability
  • 4.3 Joint, marginal and conditional probability
  • 4.4 Bayes Rule
  • 5 Introduction Probability Distributions
  • 5.1 Introduction: probability distributions and random variables
  • 5.2 The Binomial probability distributions
  • 5.3 The Poisson probability distributions
  • 5.4 Normal probability distribution
  • 5.5 Expected values
  • 6 Sampling distributions for means and proportions
  • 6.1 Statistical inference and sampling distribution of the mean
  • 6.2 Sampling distribution for proportions for n > 30
  • 6.3 Some desirable properties of estimators
  • Confidence intervals for means and proportions
  • 7.1 Confidence intervals for means
  • 7.2 Confidence intervals for proportions
  • 7.3 Precision of a confidence interval: sample size determination
  • 7.4 Confidence intervals for the difference between proportions
  • 8 Tests of hypothesis for means and proportions
  • 8.1 Tests of hypothesis for the population mean
  • 8.2 Tests of hypothesis for a population proportion
  • 8.3 Tests of hypothesis for difference between means and proportions
  • 8.4 Minitab and Excel for confidence intervals and tests of hypothesis
  • 9 Inference from small samples. Confidence intervals and tests of hypothesis
  • 9.1 Inference from small samples: Normal population, I? known
  • 9.2 The Student t-distribution
  • 9.3 Inference from small samples: Normal population, I? not known
  • 9.4 Differences between means, small independent samples.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Teresa Bradley is the author of Essential Statistics for Economics, Business and Management, published by Wiley.

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