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Intended primarily for postgraduate students of management, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. Reducing the emphasis on doing computations, this practical text thoroughly integrates microsoft excel as a tool for analysis and presents statistical concepts in the context of the functional areas of business. Retaining many of the features of the earlier editions mainly the dcova (define, collect, organize, visualize and analyze) framework, this edition contains:new continuing end-of-chapter cases.many new applied examples and problems.checklist for getting started to use microsoft excel with the book.table of contents:defining and collecting dataorganizing and visualizing datanumerical descriptive measuresbasic probabilitydiscrete probability distributionsthe normal distribution and other continuous distributionssampling distributionsconfidence interval estimationfundamentals of hypothesis testing: one sample teststwo-sample testsanalysis of variancechi-square and nonparametric testssimple linear regressionintroduction to multiple regressionmultiple regression model buildingtime-series forecastinga roadmap for analyzing datastatistical applications in quality management (online)decision making (online)appendices a-g self-test solutions and answers to selected even-numbered problemsindex
