Business Statistics | 5th Edition

1. STATISTICS: AN OVERVIEW

2. DATA CLASSIFICATION, TABULATION AND PRESENTATION

3. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

4. MEASURES OF DISPERSION

5. SKEWNESS, MOMENTS, AND KURTOSIS

6. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY

7. PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

8. SAMPLING AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS

9. ESTIMATION AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS

10. HYPOTHESIS TESTING

11. CHI-SQUARE AND OTHER NON-PARAMETRIC TESTS

12. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

13. CORRELATION ANALYSIS

14. REGRESSION ANALYSIS

15. PARTIAL AND MULTIPLE CORRELATION AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS

16. FORECASTING AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

17. INDEX NUMBERS

18. STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

19. STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY

APPENDICES

INDEX

• Each chapter contains Learning Objectives to guide the students and help them focus their attention on understanding a specific topic under study.
•  Each chapter contains Concept Quizzes to help students reinforce their understanding of the principles and applications of business statistics techniques.
• Explanations are well illustrated with numerous interesting and varied business-oriented examples.
• Conceptual Questions and Self-Practice Problems with Hints and Answers are given in each chapter to enable students to learn at their own pace.

• The text of almost each chapter has been reorganized and/or rewritten to make explanations more cogent through relevant and interesting examples.
• Complete conformity to the latest trends of questions appearing in universities and professional examinations.
•  Several exercises in each chapter have been solved using MS Excel and SPSS to demonstrate the use of software.
• References to questions set in examinations of various Indian universities have been updated.