Book Title: An Introduction to Business Statistics for Analytics (1st Edition)

Authors: Leslie Major and Amy Goldlist

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Book Description: An interactive textbook covering first year business statistics methods with videos and Excel examples.

License:
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial

Contents

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Book Description

This book contains video, interactive exercises and explanations on the following topics:

  • Measures of Central Location: Mean, Median, Mode and Weighted Mean
  • Measures of Variation: Range, Standard Deviation, Variance, Coefficient of Variation
  • Organizing Data, Frequency Distributions
  • Probability Rules
  • Conditional probability & Contingency Tables
  • Expected Values and standard deviations of random variables
  • Binomial Probability Distribution
  • Exponential and Uniform Probability Distributions
  • The Normal Distribution (zscores; Empirical Rule; Excel calculations; applications)
  • The Central Limit Theorem and Sampling Distribution of the Mean
  • Estimating the Population Mean
  • Estimating the Population Proportion
  • Hypothesis Testing: Null and Alternative Hypotheses; Type I and II Error
  • Hypothesis Testing of the Population Proportion
  • Hypothesis Testing of the Population Mean
  • Comparing Two Population Means
  • Comparing Two Population Proportions
  • Chisquare (χ2) Test of Independence
  • ANOVA
  • Simple Regression

Authors

Leslie Major and Amy Goldlist

License

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An Introduction to Business Statistics for Analytics (1st Edition) Copyright © 2024 by Amy Goldlist; Charles Chan; Leslie Major; Michael Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Business and Management

Metadata

Title
An Introduction to Business Statistics for Analytics (1st Edition)
Authors
Leslie Major and Amy Goldlist
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

An Introduction to Business Statistics for Analytics (1st Edition) Copyright © 2024 by Amy Goldlist; Charles Chan; Leslie Major; Michael Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Business and Management
Institution
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Publication Date
April 1, 2024