Statistics for Business: Data Analysis and Modelling

PART ONE: DATA COLLECTION 1. Data Analysis and Model Building: An Introduction 2. Plotting Process Data 3. Plotting Distributions 4. Summarizing Continuous Data 5. Describing Categorical Variables 6. Relating Continuous Variables PART TWO: ELEMENTS OF MODELING 7. Straight Line Models 8. Multiple Regression Models 9. Normal Distributions 10. Control Charts for Continuous Variables 11. Binomial distributions 12. Control Charts for Binary Data PART THREE: RANDOMIZED DATA COLLECTION AND INFERENCE 13. Data Collection Tools 14. Introduction to Surveys 15. Survey Designs 16. Reading the Results of a Survey 17. Significance Tests and Confidence Intervals 18. Completely Randomized and Randomized Block Designs and the Analysis of Variance 19. Factorial and Fractional Factorial Designs PART FOUR: MODELING AND INFERENCE 20. Inference and Regression Models 21. Regression Diagnostics and Transformations 22. Regression Model Selection 23. Time Series Models 24. Seasonal Time Series Models PART FIVE: STATISTICS AND ORGANIZATIONS 25. A Perspective on Statistics in Organization Appendices / References / Glossary / Answers to Selected Exercises / Data Set Index / Index