TY - BOOK AU - Levine, David M. AU - Viswanathan, P. K. AU - Stephan, David AU - Szabat, Kathryn A. TI - Business statistics: a first course SN - 9789332578951 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd. KW - Commercial statistics KW - Industrial management--Statistical methods KW - Statistical decision N1 - Table of Content Table of content: 1 Defining and Collecting Data 2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures 4 Basic Probability 5 Discrete Probability Distributions 6 The Normal Distribution 7 Sampling Distributions 8 Confidence Interval Estimation 9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests 10 Two-Sample Tests and ANOVA 11 Chi-Square Tests 12 Simple Linear Regression 13 Multiple Regression 14 Statistical Applications in Quality Management (online) 15 Decision Analysis (online) 16 Forecasting (online) N2 - The world of business statistics has grown larger, expanding into and combining with other disciplines. And, in a reprise of something that occurred a generation ago, new fields of study - this time with names such as informatics, data analytics, and decision science - have emerged. The seventh edition of Business Statistics presents a comprehensive study of all these developments while retaining the rich pedagogy and style of the earlier editions. The guiding philosophy of the book has been to help students see the relevance of statistics in their own careers by providing examples drawn from the functional areas in which they may be specializing. The cases and learnings will give students ample practice in understanding how to apply statistics to business and to familiarize students with the use of spreadsheet and statistical software ER -