Brief Course In Business Statistics; Author: Mendenhall, William; Joint Author: Beaver, Barbara M.; Paperback

Author: Mendenhall, William; Joint Author: Beaver, Barbara M.
Edition #2; Paperback; Illustrations (Some Colour)
694 pages
Thomson Learning
ISBN: 0534381308

Based on their popular book, A Course in Business Statistics, William Mendenhall, Robert J. Beaver, and Barbara M. Beaver present a brief book that emphasizes the important concepts and methods of statistics that readers are likely to see and use in their careers. Clear and easy to comprehend, this book achieves a balance of manual and computer methods and emphasizes applications. The authors' approach is reflected in their objective to make inferences about a population from information contained in a sample drawn from that population, and to assess the reliability of the inference. Readers are shown how to solve problems even where uncertainty exists, because uncertain situations are precisely what will confront them in business. Using this knowledge, readers soon begin to undeMendenhall (U. of Florida) and the Beavers (U. of California, Riverside) approach statistics by showing students how to solve problems in the face of uncertainty, as they will have to do in the business world. Topics include probability and probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimati