Statistics for Business and Economics

David R. Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Analysis in the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati. Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, he earned his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. Professor Anderson has served as Head of the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management and as Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration. In addition, he was the coordinator of the colleges first executive programme. At the University of Cincinnati, Dr Anderson has taught graduate-level courses in regression analysis, multivariate analysis and management science. He also has taught statistical courses at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. Professor Anderson has been honoured with nominations and awards for excellence in teaching and excellence in service to student organizations. He has co-authored ten textbooks in the areas of statistics, management science, linear programming, and production and operations management. He is an active consultant in the field of sampling and statistical methods James J. Cochran is Professor of Applied Statistics, the Rogers-Spivey Faculty Fellow and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the University of Alabama. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he earned his B.S., M.S., and M.B.A. degrees from Wright State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Cochran has served at The University of Alabama since 2014 and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Universidad de Talca, the University of South Africa and Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci. Dr. Cochran has published more than 45 papers in the development and application of operations research and statistical methods. He has published his research in Management Science, The American Statistician, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics and Statistics and Probability Letters. He was the 2008 recipient of the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of Operations Research Practice and the 2010 recipient of the Mu Sigma Rho Statistical Education Award. Dr. Cochran was elected to the International Statistics Institute in 2005 and named a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011. He received the Founders Award in 2014 and the Karl E. Peace Award in 2015 from the American Statistical Association. In 2017 he received the American Statistical Associations Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award and was named a fellow of INFORMS. In 2018 he received the INFORMS Presidents Award. A strong advocate for effective statistics and operations research education as a means of improving the quality of applications to real problems, Dr. Cochran has organized and chaired teaching workshops throughout the world. Eddie Shoesmith is a Fellow of the University of Buckingham, UK, where he was formerly Senior Lecturer in St...

Book contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
1 Data and statistics
2 Descriptive statistics: tabular and graphical presentations
3 Descriptive statistics: numerical measures
4 Introduction to probability
5 Discrete probability distributions
6 Continuous probability distributions
7 Sampling and sampling distributions
8 Interval estimation
9 Hypothesis tests
10 Statistical inference about means and proportions with two populations
11 Inferences about population variances
12 Tests of goodness of fit and independence
13 Experimental design and analysis of variance
14 Simple linear regression
15 Multiple regression
16 Regression analysis: model building
17 Time series analysis and forecasting
18 Non-parametric methods
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19 Index numbers
20 Statistical methods for quality control
21 Decision analysis
22 Sample surveys
Chapter Software Sections for EXCEL, MINITAB, SPSS and R
Appendix A: References and bibliography
Appendix B: Tables
Appendix C: Summation Notation
Appendix D: Answers to even-numbered exercises and fully worked solutions to exercises flagged with the SOLUTIONS icon.