Essentials of Business Statistics with Student CD - Rilegato

Bruce L. Bowerman is professor of decision sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. degree in statistics from Iowa State University in 1974, and he has over 40 years of experience teaching basic statistics, regression analysis, time series forecasting, survey sampling, and design of experiments to both undergraduate and graduate students. In 1987, Professor Bowerman received an Outstanding Teaching award from the Miami University senior class, and in 1992 he received an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Richard T. OConnell, Professor Bowerman has written 16 textbooks. These include Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression: An Applied Approach (also coauthored with Anne B. Koehler); and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. The fi rst edition of Forecasting and Time Series earned an Outstanding Academic Book award from Choice magazine. Professor Bowerman has also published a number of articles in applied stochastic processes, time series forecasting, and statistical education. In his spare time, Professor Bowerman enjoys watching movies and sports, playing tennis, and designing houses.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Business Statistics

Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods

Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods

Chapter 4 Probability

Chapter 5 Discrete Random Variables

Chapter 6 Continuous Random Variables

Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions

Chapter 8 Confidence Intervals

Chapter 9 Hypotheses Testing

Chapter 10 Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples

Chapter 11 Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance

Chapter 12 Chi-Square Tests

Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression Analysis

Chapter 14 Multiple Regression and Model Building

Appendix A Statistical Tables

Appendix B Counting Rules

Appendix C The Hypergeometric Distribution

Answers to Most Odd-Numbered Exercises

Chapter 15 (On Website) Process Improvement Using Control Charts

Appendix D (On Website) Two-Way Analysis of Variance