Statistical integrity with a complete excel solution. The seventh edition retains its global emphasis, maintaining its position of being at the vanguard of international issues in business.

Contents:

1. Introduction and dscriptive statistics

2. Probability

3. random variables

4. The Normal distribution

5. Sampling and sampling distributions

6. Confidence intervals

7. Hypothesis testing

8. The comparison of two populations

9. Analysis of variance

10. Simple linear regression and correlation

11. Multiple regression

12. Time series , forecasting, and index numbers

13. Quality control and improvement

14. Nonparametric methods and chi-square tests

15. Bayesian statistics and decision analysis

Appendixes

A. references

B. Answers to most-odd-numbered problems

C. Statistical Tables on the CD

16. sampling methods

17. Multivariate analysis

Working with templates

Introduction to excel basics