Levin And Rubin Statistics For Management

Statistics for Management

Statistics For Management is a textbook of business statistics that helps students grasp the fundamentals of the subject in a simple and easy manner.Statistics For Management is a detailed textbook on the subject of business statistics. It seeks to dispel the seeming complexity of the subject by presenting the concepts in a lucid and visually demonstrative manner. The book begins with an overview of business statistics. Subsequent chapters cover topics like tables and graphs, probability, sampling, estimation, testing hypotheses, and quality and quality control. The last few chapters present concepts like chi-square, analysis of variance, simple regression and multiple regression, non-parametric methods, time series and forecasting, and index numbers. The book ends with a chapter on decision theory. The concepts in the book are explained at length, and illustrative explanations are given precedence over complex mathematical notations. Also, each discussion is accompanied by examples that demonstrate one or more real world applications of the concepts. All the hypothesis tests are conducted using the standardized scale. Every section ends with three types of exercises for practice self-evaluative, basic, and application exercises. A very useful feature of the book is the Hints And Assumptions feature, which provides useful hints for solving the exercise problems and alerts the students about the commonly committed mistakes while solving them. Statistics For Management was published in 2011 by Pearson.

Statistics for Management

With Statistics for Management, Levin and Rubin have provided a non-intimidating business statistics book that users can easily read and understand. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition includes the absolute minimum of mathematical/statistical notation necessary to teach the material. Concepts are fully explained in simple, easy-to-understand language as they are presented, making the book an excellent source from which to learn and teach. After each discussion, readers are guided through real-world examples to show how book principles work in professional practice. Includes easy-to-understand explanations of difficult statistical topics, such as sampling distributions, relationship between confidence level and confidence interval, interpreting r-square. A complete package of teaching/learning aids is provided in every chapter, including chapter review exercises, chapter concepts tests,"Statistics at Work" conceptual cases, "Computer Database Exercises", "From the Textbook to the Real-World Examples."

Business Statistics: An Applied Orientation