The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Statistics,9780028639871

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Statistics

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ISBN13: 9780028639871
ISBN10: 0028639871
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): PENGUIN PUTNAM INC
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Summary

If statistics intimidate you, if you don't know a standard deviation from a standard deduction, this book uses an almost-no-math approach to helping you understand and put together business reports. It is a step-by-step guide to choosing, using, and interpreting statistics for business. Instead of teaching you arithmetic, symbols, and calculations, it teaches you how to decide what data is necessary for a report.

Author Biography

Sunny Baker, Ph.D. teaches graduate-level research and statistics courses along with information technology for the University of Redlands. She has also taught at the University of Southern California and San Jose State University. A former general manager at Microsoft and director of marketing at Intel, Sunny has authored or co-authored more than 20 books including the best-selling The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Charting Your Future 1(70)
Statistics and Business Go Hand in Hand
3(8)
Understand why knowing statistics is important for your business success
Understanding and Organizing Business Data
11(10)
Discover the types of data used in business and statistics
Visualizing Profit and Performance
21(18)
Learn about the charts, graphs, and tables used in descriptive statistics
Predicting Profits with Measures of Central Tendency
39(8)
Know how to recognize a mean from a mode from a median
Improving Quality with Measures of Dispersion
47(10)
Go from central measures to variance and the standard deviation
Solving Problems with Curves and z-Scores
57(14)
Know when curves are normal and how associated z-scores help answer business questions
Part 2: Facing Probability and Forecasting 71(44)
Playing the Probability Game
73(18)
Discover the importance of probability in business and statistics
Forecasting Your Business Results
91(12)
Learn statistical ways to look at your future results
Making Decisions That Count
103(12)
Develop decision techniques that can handle big problems
Part 3 Using Business Research and Inference 115(60)
Using Research in Your Business
117(12)
Describe the basic reasons for quality research in your company
Eliminating the Bias in Your Research
129(8)
Understand the importance of random samples in business research
Being Confident About Your Sample
137(12)
Make sure your sample represents the population in question
Testing Your Hypothesis
149(14)
Know when your test results are significant
Learning from Contingency Tables
163(12)
Discover how to use tables and the chi-square statistic to answer questions of relationship
Part 4: Seeing the Industry Relationships 175(50)
Recognizing the Relationships of Business Variables
177(16)
Know when variables are correlated and how they can be predicted with linear regression
Estimating the Probability of Success with the t-Test
193(12)
Learn how to use the t-test to study small samples
Are These Customers the Same or Different?
205(10)
Compare means to ascertain the similarity and difference between two groups
Getting Results from ANOVA
215(10)
Compare the means of several populations
Part 5: Going on from Here 225(78)
Interpreting Business Data Correctly
227(12)
Avoid statistical pitfalls and understand the correct use of statistical tests
Using Statistics Programs for Your Company
239(14)
Discover how computer software programs can make statistics fast and easy
Advancing Your Business with Statistics
253(50)
Review all you've Learned and find out how to learn more
Appendixes
A Answer Key
261(6)
B Statistics Formulas
267(6)
C Sample Statistical Tables
273(12)
D Glossary
285(18)
Index 303

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