Applied Business Statistics: Making Better Business Decisions, International Student Version, 7th Edition

1 What Is Statistics
Decision Dilemma: Statistics Describe the State of Business in India’s Countryside
2 Visualizing the Data
Decision Dilemma: Container Shipping Companies
3 Describing Data Through Statistics
Decision Dilemma: Laundry Statistics
5 Discrete Probability Distributions
Decision Dilemma: Life with a Cell Phone
6 Continuous Probability Distributions
Decision Dilemma: The Cost of Human Resources
7 Distributions of the Sample Mean and Sample Proportion and Sampling Techniques
Decision Dilemma: What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers?
8 Estimating Parameters for Single Populations
Decision Dilemma: Compensation for Purchasing Managers
9 Testing Hypotheses about Single Population Parameters
Decision Dilemma: Word-of-Mouth Business Referrals and influential
10 Analyzing the Differences in Two Populations
Decision Dilemma: Online Shopping
11 Analysis of Variance
Decision Dilemma: Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign Self-Initiated Expatriates
12 Introduction to Regression Analysis and Correlation
Decision Dilemma: Predicting International Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big Mac
13 Basic Multiple Regression Analysis
Decision Dilemma: Are You Going to Hate Your New Job?
14 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis
Decision Dilemma: Determining Compensation for CEOs
15 Forecasting
Decision Dilemma: Forecasting Air Pollution
16 Chi-Square Analysis
Decision Dilemma: Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry
17 Analyzing Data Using Nonparametric Statistics
Decision Dilemma: How Is the Doughnut Business?
18 Quality
Decision Dilemma: Italy’s Piaggio Makes a Comeback
19 Decision Analysis
Decision Dilemma: Decision Making at the CEO Level