Statistics for Business and Economics

Dr Carlos Cortinhas is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Economics at Exeter University Business School. He completed his PhD in 2007 and prior to joining Exeter Dr Cortinhas completed his Masters at Kobe University, Japan. Aside from academia, he has previously worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan and also for the Ministry for the Economy and Innovation in Portugal. Dr Cortinhas teaches two introductory courses in statistics for undergraduate students at Exeter: the first for accounting, finance and economics majors and the second for business and management majors.

• Unit I Introduction1 Introduction to Statistics 32 Charts and Graphs 193 Descriptive Statistics 514 Probability 102Unit II Distributions and Sampling5 Discrete Distributions 1496 Continuous Distributions 1947 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 234Unit III Making Inferences About Population Parameters8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 2719 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 31010 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 36311 Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 422Unit IV Regression Analysis and Forecasting12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 48713 Multiple Regression Analysis 54514 Building Multiple Regression Models 57815 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 625Unit V Categorical Data and Non-parametric Statistics16 Analysis of Categorical Data 68517 Non-parametric Statistics 713AppendicesA Tables 765B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 807Glossary 819Index 829Website Materials18 Statistical Quality Control19 Decision Analysis