 
Business Statistics: Contemporary Decision Making, 5th Edition
January 2007, ©2008
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics.
Chapter 2 Charts and Graphs.
Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics.
Chapter 4 Probability.
Unit II: Distributions and Sampling.
Chapter 5 Discrete Distributions.
Chapter 6 Continuous Distributions.
Chapter 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions.
Unit III: Making Inferences about Population Parameters.
Chapter 8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations.
Chapter 9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations.
Chapter 10 Statistical Inferences about Two Populations.
Chapter 11 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments.
Chapter 12 Analysis of Categorical Data.
Chapter 13 Nonparametric Statistics.
Unit IV: Regression, Forecasting, and Quality: Relationships, Prediction, and Process Improvement.
Chapter 14 Simple Regression Analysis.
Chapter 15 Multiple Regression Analysis.
Chapter 16 Building Multiple Regression Models.
Chapter 17 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers.
Chapter 18 Statistical Quality Control.
Appendix A Tables.
Appendix B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems.
Glossary.
Index.
The following materials are available at: www.wiley.com/college/black
Chapter 19 Decision Analysis.
Supplement 1 Summation Notation.
Supplement 2 Derivation of Simple Regression Formulas for Slope and y Intercept.
Supplement 3 Advanced Exponential Smoothing.
Since joining the faculty of UHCL in 1979, Professor Black has taught all levels of statistics courses, forecasting, management. In 2005, he was awarded the President's Distinguished Teaching Award for the University. He has published twenty journal articles and over twenty professional papers, as well as two textbooks: Business Statistics: An Introductory Course and Business Statistics: Contemporary Decision Making. He is presently serving as President of the Council of Professors at UHCL. Black has consulted for many different companies, including Aetna, City of Houston, NYLCare,, At&T, Johnson Space Center, Southwest Information Resources, Connect Corporation, and Eagle Engineering.
- Units
- Reorganized into four units that will help professors teach and students see the connection between topics.
- Tree Taxonomy Diagrams
- Taxonomies created for Units 3 and 4
- Further illustrate the connection between topics and help student pick the correct technique to use to solve problems
- Videotape Tutorials
- 12 sessions on key difficult topics
- Created and delivered by Ken Black
- Available in WileyPLUS
- WileyPLUS
- Second edition with WileyPLUS!
- WileyPLUS is a powerful online tool that provides an integrated suite of teaching and learning resources, in one easy-to-use website.
- Decision Dilemma
- Chapter-opening vignettes are brief business-world scenarios which use the techniques introduced in the chapter to solve a business decision dilemma
- Decision Dilemma Solved
- At the end of chapters, questions posed by the Decision Dilemma are addressed providing closure and reinforcing the information presented in that chapter
- Minitab and Excel
- Both outputs are featured in each chapter
- Excel coverage increased throughout 5th edition
- Ethical Considerations
- A feature in each chapter
- Integrates the topic of ethics with applications of business statistics
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