1st Edition

Applied Statistics for Business and Economics

By Robert M. Leekley Copyright 2010
496 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages 277 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

Designed for a one-semester course, Applied Statistics for Business and Economics offers students in business and the social sciences an effective introduction to some of the most basic and powerful techniques available for understanding their world. Numerous interesting and important examples reflect real-life situations, stimulating students to think realistically in tackling these problems.... Read more

Introduction to Statistics. Describing Data: Tables and Graphs. Describing Data: Summary Statistics. Basic Probability. Probability Distributions. Sampling and Sampling Distributions. Estimation and Confidence Intervals. Tests of Hypotheses: One-Sample Tests. Tests of Hypotheses: Two-Sample Tests. Tests of Hypotheses: Contingency and Goodness-of-Fit. Tests of Hypotheses: ANOVA and Tests of Variances. Simple Regression and Correlation. Multiple Regression. Time-Series Analysis. Appendices. Index.

Biography

Robert M. Leekley is a professor in the Department of Economics at Illinois Wesleyan University.