Statistics for Management and Economics, Abbreviated Edition (with CD-ROM), 8th Edition
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Professor Gerald Keller
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STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS ABBREVIATED, 8e, emphasizes applications over calculation. It illustrates how vital statistical methods and tools are for today's managers--and teaches you how to apply them to real business problems. Using a proven three-step 'ICI' approach to problem solving, the text teaches you how to IDENTIFY the correct statistical technique by focusing on the problem objective and data type; how to COMPUTE the statistics doing them by hand, using Excel®, or using MINITAB; and how to INTERPRET results in the context of the problem. This unique approach enhances your comprehension and practical skills. The text's vast assortment of data-driven examples, exercises, and cases covers the various functional areas of business, demonstrating the statistical applications that marketing managers, financial analysts, accountants, economists, and others use. These comprehensive applications give you hands-on practice, while solid pedagogical elements make the material more accessible and easy to apply to your world. In addition, learning resources such as ThomsonNOW and the Student Suite CD-ROM maximize study time to help you achieve the results you want. Completely up-to-date, the eighth edition offers comprehensive coverage, current examples, and Excel® 2007 and MINITAB 15 content.# The review chapters from past editions have been changed. Keller now has five review appendixes. These appear at the end of Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17; and each appendix provides a list of the techniques covered to that point, a flowchart, and exercises and cases.
# Chapters 2 and 4 now feature even more real data. These include the question of global warming (monthly temperature anomalies from three sources and carbon dioxide readings): updated payroll and number of team wins in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey; and the market model moved from Chapter 17 in the seventh edition, with actual data from the NYSE, NASDAQ, and the TSE.
# The author has created many new examples and exercises. The textbook contains 130 solved examples; 1,437 exercises; 31 cases; 653 data sets (with code names and permanent names); and 31 CD appendixes containing 27 solved examples, 61 exercises, and 24 data sets--for a grand total of 157 worked examples, 1,498 exercises, 31 cases, and 677 data sets.
# Current Exce®l & MINITAB: The eighth edition includes Excel® 2007 and MINITAB 15 content that gives students hands-on practice using the same technology that professionals use.
# With 'Applications in . . .' sections and boxes, STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS ABBREVIATED now includes 45 applications (in finance, marketing, operations management, human resources, economics, and accounting) highlighting how statistics is used in those professions. For example, the section 'Applications in Accounting: Auditing' shows how statistics are used to estimate several parameters in auditing and uses a real application (GAO). A new optional section, 'Applications in Professional Sports: Baseball,' contains a subsection on the success of the Oakland Athletics.
# Hands-on Practice: In addition to new and updated examples and exercises that appear throughout the text, innovative coverage of writing reports and creating presentations sets up exercises that ask students to articulate their findings to nonstatisticians.
# Data Analysis: Data Analysis Plus 5.0 and 7.0® features Excel® macros created to complement Excel's menu of statistical procedures. All statistical techniques introduced in this book can be computed using Excel's ToolPak or version 5.0 of Data Analysis Plus®. This version is compatible with all versions of Excel®, including Office 95, 97, 2000, and XP. A help file is included.
# Unique 'ICI' Approach: Keller is renowned for its consistent, proven three-step method to solving problems. 'Identify, Compute, and Interpret' shows students how to determine the appropriate technique, how to compute the statistics, and how to interpret the results in the context of the problem at hand.
# Thorough Calculations: Providing maximum flexibility for instructors, most calculations are performed in three ways: doing them by hand, using Excel, and using MINITAB. Illustrations include output and step-by-step instructions, ensuring that students have a solid understanding.
# Real-World Emphasis: Many examples, exercises, and cases are based on actual studies performed by statisticians and published in journals, newspapers, and magazines or presented at conferences. Many data files were re-created to produce the original results.
# Java Applets: Customized to the text, interactive Java applets let students experience statistics firsthand. The 19 applets and 82 exercises associated with them allow students to visualize statistical concepts. Java applets are on the Student's Suite CD-ROM, along with a study guide, data sets, links to the companion Website, and 25 appendices.
# The two review chapters from past editions have been changed. Keller now has five review appendixes. These appear at the end of Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17; and each appendix provides a list of the techniques covered to that point, a flowchart, and exercises and cases.
# Real-World Application: New and updated examples and exercises give you up-to-date coverage. Numerous applications in finance, marketing, operations, human resources, and accounting highlight how statistics are used in those professions. For example, the section 'Applications in Accounting: Auditing' shows how statistics are used to estimate several parameters in auditing and uses a real application (GAO).
# Communication Emphasis: New coverage of writing reports and creating presentations teaches you how to communicate your statistical findings. Comprehensive exercises help you articulate your results to various audiences, including nonstatisticians.
# Data Analysis: All statistical techniques introduced in this book can be computed using Excel's ToolPak or version 7.0 of Data Analysis Plus®, which features Excel® macros created to complement Excel's menu of statistical procedures. This version is compatible with all versions of Excel®, including Office 95, 97, 2000, and XP. A help file is included.
# Unique 'ICI' Approach: Keller is renowned for its consistent, proven three-step method to solving problems. The 'Identify, Compute, and Interpret' approach teaches you how to determine the appropriate technique, how to compute the statistics, and how to interpret the results in the context of the problem at hand.
# In this edition, the author has added five review appendixes. These appear at the end of Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17; and each appendix provides a list of the techniques covered to that point, a flowchart, and exercises and cases.
# Real-World Emphasis: Chapter-opening cases spotlight practical uses of techniques introduced in the chapter. Data-driven examples, exercises, and cases demonstrate statistical applications that marketing managers, financial analysts, accountants, economists, and others use. Many are based on actual studies performed by statisticians.
# Java Applets: Interactive Java applets let you experience statistics firsthand. Specifically customized to this text, the 19 applets and 83 exercises associated with them enable you to visualize statistical concepts to gain a better understanding. Keller, Professor Gerald - Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Gerald Keller is Professor of Business at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he has taught statistics, management science, and operations management since 1974. He also has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Miami, McMaster University, the University of Windsor, and the Beijing Institute of Science and Technology. Dr. Keller has consulted with banks on credit scoring and credit card fraud and has conducted market surveys for the Canadian government on energy conservation. The author of APPLIED STATISTICS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL, Dr. Keller has also been published in OMEGA, IIE TRANSACTIONS, DECISION SCIENCES, INFOR, ECONOMICS LETTERS, and ARCHIVES OF SURGERY. 1. What Is Statistics?
PART 1: DESCRIPTIVE TECHNIQUES.
2. Graphical and Tabular Descriptive Techniques.
3. Art and Science of Graphical Presentations.
4. Numerical Descriptive Techniques.
5. Data Collection and Sampling.
PART 2: PROBABILITY.
6. Probability.
7. Random Variables and Discrete Probability Distributions.
8. Continuous Probability Distributions.
9. Sampling Distributions.
PART 3: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL INFERENCE.
10. Introduction to Estimation.
11. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing.
PART 4: STATISTICAL INFERENCE: ONE AND TWO POPULATIONS.
12. Inference about One Population.
13. Inference about Two Populations.
PART 5: STATISTICAL INFERENCE: ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE AND CHI-SQUARED TESTS.
14. Analysis of Variance.
15. Chi-Squared Tests.
PART 6: REGRESSION.
16. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation.
17. Multiple Regression.
Appendix A: Data File Sample Statistics.
Appendix B: Tables.
Appendix C: Answers to Selected Even-Numbered Exercises.
Index.
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