Introductory Statistics for Management and Economics

Abstract

1. What Statistics Is All About 2. Data Collection and Sampling Theory 3. Summarizing Data in Tables and Graphs 4. Summary Statistics: Measures of Location and Dispersion 5. Introduction to Probability 6. Discrete Probability Distributions 7. Some Important Discrete Distributions 8. Some Useful Continuous Probability Distributions 9. Sampling Theory and Some Important Sampling Distributions 10. Estimating and Constructing Confidence Intervals 11. Hypothesis Testing 12. Tests of Hypotheses Involving Two Populations 13. Chi-Square Tests 14. Analysis of Variance 15. Regression and Correlation 16. Multiple Regression Models 17. Special Topics in Multiple Regression Analysis 18. Residual Analysis and Violations of the Basic Assumptions 19. Time Series Analysis I: Estimation of the Trend Component 20. Time Series Analysis II: Estimation of the Seasonal Component 21. Some Nonparametric Tests 22. Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory 23. Quality Control