The objective of this book is to provide students majoring in management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, and other fields of business administration with an introductory survey of the many applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. The book consists of
1. What is statistics?
2. Describing data: frequency distribution and graphic presentation
3. Describing data: Numerical measures
4. Describing data: displaying and exploring data
5. A survey of probability concepts
6. Discrete probability distributions
7. Continuous probability distributions
8. Sampling methods and the central limit theorem
9. Estimation and confidence intervals
10. One-sample tests of hypothesis
11. Two-sample tests of hypothesis
12. Analysis of variance
13. Linear regression and correlation
14. Multiple regression and correlation analysis
15. Nonparametric methods: chi-square applications
16. Nonparametric methods: analysis of ranked data
17. Statistical quality control
18. Index numbers
19. Time series and forecasting
20. An introduction to decision theory