Business Statistics: A First Course, Second Canadian Edition, recognizes both the changing curriculum and the changing pedagogy for teaching introductory statistics. It focuses on application, streamlines and reorganizes topics, sheds unneeded theoretical details, and recognizes learning styles of the current generation of students, making it an attractive choice for one-semester Business Statistics courses at Canadian universities and colleges.The Second Canadian edition uses illustrative case studies and chapter exercises that focus on business and management of Canadian companies, large and small. The writing has Canadian style, perspective, and sensibility, not just changes to spelling and metric measurements. The book recognizes that Canada has public policy, governmental structure and mandate (federal, provincial, and municipal), economic systems (banking and finance), social services, health care, sports and entertainment are different from the United States. While the book is indeed Canadian, it also shows how statistics has no geographical borders, and is a vital part of building and enhancing the global community.

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Table of Contents

 

Part 1 Exploring and Collecting Data

Chapter 01 Statistics, Data, & Decisions

Chapter 02 Displaying and Describing Categorical Data

Chapter 03 Displaying and Describing Quantitative Data

Chapter 04 Correlation and Linear Regression

Part 2 Modelling with Probability

Chapter 05 Randomness and Probability

Chapter 06 Random Variables and Probability Models

Chapter 07 The Normal and Other Continuous Distributions

Chapter 08 Surveys and Sampling

Chapter 09 Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals for Proportions

Part 3 Building Models for Decision Making

Chapter 10 Testing Hypothesis about Proportions

Chapter 11 Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Means

Chapter 12 Comparing Two Groups

Chapter 13 Inference for Counts: Chi-Square Tests

Part 4 Models for Decision-Making

Chapter 14 Inference for Regression

Chapter 15 Multiple Regression

Chapter 16 Statistical Modelling and the World of Business Statistics

Appendices

A Answer Key

B Tables and Selected Formulas

C Index