Statistics for Management and Economics

Gerald Keller is emeritus professor of business at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he taught statistics, management science and operations management from 1974 to 2011. Dr Nicoleta Gaciu is Senior Lecturer in Education at Oxford Brookes University and she has worked as a senior consultant within the finance world. She is currently teaching Research Methods, Statistics and AI in Education. Nicoleta is a member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP), Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and Convenor for BERA Science Education SIG.

• About the AuthorsPrefaceKey FeaturesAcknowledgements1 What is statistics? 2 Graphical descriptive techniques I 3 Graphical descriptive techniques II 4 Numerical Descriptive Techniques 5 Data collection and sampling 6 Probability 7 Random variables and discrete probability distributions 8 Continuous probability distributions 9 Sampling distributions 10 Introduction to estimation 11 Introduction to hypothesis testing 12 Inference about a population 13 Inference about comparing two populations 14 Analysis of variance 15 Chi-squared tests 16 Simple linear regression and correlation 17 Multiple regression 18 Model building19 Non-parametric statistics20 Time series analysis and forecasting21 Statistical process control22 Decision analysis23 ConclusionAppendix ACreditsIndex