Statistics for Business and Economics(十版)
New To This Edition
- 1.Thorough and extensively revised exercise sets, up to 20% in each chapter
- 2.Critical Thinking Challenges —at the end of the “Chapter Supplementary Exercises”, students are asked to apply their critical thinking skills to solve one or two challenging real-life business problems.
- 3.New and updated Statistics in Action –Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 14
- 4."Putting it All Together" Flowcharts and Decision Trees - appear at the end of chapters, where appropriate, to offer a visual depiction of how to choose the appropriate statistical method.
- 5.Activities and Applets to Foster Active Learning in the Classroom
- 5.1.Approximately 2 activities, within each chapter, encourage students to collect, summarize and analyze data. Doing these activities promotes conceptual understanding of statistical concepts.
- 5.2.Applets are contained on the textbook CD. They are useful to illustrate concepts in a visual manner. These applets are also integrated, where appropriate, into exercises within the
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Content Changes:
- 1.Single chapter on Probability Distributions — Discrete, continuous, and sampling distributions (previously Chapters 4-6) are now combined into a single chapter (4) to facilitate reduction in coverage of these topics and provide material appropriate for a one-semester course in business statistics.
- 2.New sections on Identifying the Target Parameter — added to confidence interval chapter (5) and two-sample inferences chapter (7), to aid students in selecting the appropriate parameter to estimate.
- 3.Streamlined chapters on Regression — several sections from the previous edition have been combined and streamlined to shorten the simple linear regression chapter (10) and multiple regression chapter (11).
- 4.Time Series and Nonparametric chapters on CD — to shorten the printed length of the text, the last two chapters (13 and 14) are now made available in pdf format on a CD that accompanies the text and online at the Prentice Hall-McClave web site.
