Business Statistics for Dummies

Business Statistics For Dummies tracks to a typical business statistics course and offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations. Many real-life examples show how these concepts apply to the world of global business and economics. If you're studying business at the university level or you're a professional looking for a desk reference on this complicated topic, Business Statistics For Dummies has you covered.

* Statistics 101 - get an introduction to probability, sampling techniques and sampling distributions, and drawing conclusions from data
* Pictures tell the story - find out how to use several types of charts and graphs to visualize the most important properties of a data set
* Take the pain out of probability - discover the lowdown on generating outcomes, types of probabilities, and rules of probability
* Have confidence - draw conclusions from samples with the confidence interval, testing hypotheses about population means, analysis of variance, and testing hypotheses about population variances

Open the book and find:
* The use of statistics in daily life
* Sampling techniques and sampling distributions
* Methods for finding the mean of a data set
* Binomial, geometric, and Poisson distributions
* The scoop on t-distribution
* Regression analysis and forecasting
* Errors that arise in statistical analysis
* Key formulas and statistical tables