托马斯威廉斯(Thomas A. Williams) 美国罗切斯特理工大学商学院管理科学教授。在克拉克森大学获得学士学位,在伦斯勒理工大学获得硕士学位和博士学位。曾在辛辛那提大学工商管理学院担任了7年的教学工作,制定了信息系统专业的本科教学计划,并担任协调人。他还是罗切斯特理工大学决策科学系的第一任主席。他不但讲授本科生的管理科学与统计学课程,而且还讲授研究生的回归与决策分析课程。
丹尼斯斯威尼(Dennis J. Sweeney) 美国辛辛那提大学数量分析系教授和生产力提高中心主任。在德雷克大学获得工商管理学士学位,在印第安纳大学获得工商管理硕士和工商管理博士学位,并成为NDEA会员。曾担任辛辛那提大学数量分析系主任和工商管理学院副院长。
戴维安德森(David R. Anderson) 美国辛辛那提大学工商管理学院数量分析系教授。在普度大学获得学士、硕士和博士学位。担任辛辛那提大学数量分析与运作管理系主任及工商管理学院副院长,还是工商管理学院首个高管项目的协调人。
目錄:
Chapter 1 Data and Statistics
Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations
Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures
Chapter 4Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 5 Interval Estimation
Chapter 6 Hypothesis Tests
Chapter 7Comparisons Involving Means, Experimental Design, and Analysis of Variance
Chapter 8 Comparisons Involving Proportions and a Test of Independence
Chapter 9 Simple Linear Regression
Chapter 10 Multiple Regression
Appendix A Tables
Appendix B Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Select Exercises
Appendix C Microsoft Excel 2010 and Tools for Statistical Analysis
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The purpose of Essentials of Contemporary Business Statistics is to give students, primarily those in the fields of business administration and economics, a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the nonmathematician in mind; the mathematical prerequisite is knowledge of algebra.
Applications of data analysis and statistical methodology are an integral part of the organization and presentation of the text material. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an applications setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solutions to problems.