Business Statistics: A First Course 8th Edition By David Levine, Kathryn Szabat, David Stephan
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Business Statistics: A First Course (8th Edition) by David Levine, Kathryn Szabat, and David Stephan covers introductory to advanced business statistical methods across 17 primary chapters, emphasizing data interpretation over manual calculation. [1, 2]
The complete breakdown of the core topics and chapters included in the Pearson 8th Edition textbook includes: []
Data Collection and Visualization
- Online Chapter: First Things First – Introduction to big data, analytics, and business metrics.
- Chapter 1: Defining and Collecting Data – Variable types, sampling methods, data cleaning, and survey errors.
- Chapter 2: Organizing and Visualizing Variables – Categorical and numerical tables, charts, and data visualization tools. [, 2, 3]
Descriptive Measures and Probability
- Chapter 3: Numerical Descriptive Measures – Central tendency, dispersion, variance, shape, and population summary measures.
- Chapter 4: Basic Probability – Probability fundamentals, joint probability, and conditional probability.
- Chapter 5: Discrete Probability Distributions – Binomial, Poisson, and covariance-related distributions.
- Chapter 6: The Normal Distribution – Continuous distributions, standard normal distribution, and evaluating normality. [1, 2, 3]
Statistical Inference
- Chapter 7: Sampling Distributions – Sampling distribution of the mean, sample proportion, and the Central Limit Theorem.
- Chapter 8: Confidence Interval Estimation – Intervals for means, proportions, and sample size determination.
- Chapter 9: Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests – Type I and II errors, Z-tests, and t-tests.
- Chapter 10: Two-Sample Tests – Comparing two independent means, numerical variances, and two proportions.
- Chapter 11: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) – One-way ANOVA and F-tests for multiple mean comparisons.
- Chapter 12: Chi-Square and Nonparametric Tests – Contingency tables and tests for categorical data. [1, 2, 3]
Regression Models and Business Analytics
- Chapter 13: Simple Linear Regression – Correlation, slope equations, and forecasting applications.
- Chapter 14: Introduction to Multiple Regression – Multiple variables, coefficient interpretation, and model building.
- Chapter 15: Time Series Forecasting – Trend analysis, smoothing methods, and regression in time series.
- Chapter 16: Statistical Applications in Quality Management – Control charts and process capability indexes.
- Chapter 17: Business Analytics – Predictive analytics, data mining, classification, clustering, and association techniques. [, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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