Introductory Business Statistics

The book "Introductory Business Statistics" by Thomas K. Tiemann explores the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and most importantly sampling distributions. The author covers topics including descriptive statistics and...

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Main Author: Tiemann, Thomas K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] BCcampus [2010]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Descriptive statistics and frequency distributions
  • Descriptive statistics
  • 2. The normal and t-distributions
  • Normal things
  • The t-distribution
  • 3. Making estimates
  • Estimating the population mean
  • Estimating the population proportion
  • Estimating population variance
  • 4. Hypothesis testing
  • The strategy of hypothesis testing
  • 5. The t-test
  • The t-distribution
  • 6. F-test and one-way anova
  • Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • 7. Some non-parametric tests
  • Do these populations have the same location? The Mann-Whitney U testTesting with matched pairs: the Wilcoxon signed ranks test.
  • Are these two variables related? Spearman's rank correlation
  • 8. Regression basics
  • What is regression?
  • Correlation and covariance
  • Covariance, correlation, and regression