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Preface xvii
About the Author xxvii

INTRODUCTION

1 What Is Statistics 02

Decision Dilemma: Statistics Describe the State of Business in India's Countryside 03

2 Visualizing the Data 18

Decision Dilemma: Container Shipping Companies 19

3 Describing Data Through Statistics 52

Decision Dilemma: Laundry Statistics 53

5 Discrete Probability Distributions 142

Decision Dilemma: Life with a Cell Phone 143

6 Continuous Probability Distributions 184

Decision Dilemma: The Cost of Human Resources 185

7 Distributions of the Sample Mean and Sample Proportion and Sampling Techniques 222

Decision Dilemma: What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers? 223

8 Estimating Parameters for Single Populations 256

Decision Dilemma: Compensation for Purchasing Managers 257

9 Testing Hypotheses about Single Population Parameters 294

Decision Dilemma: Word-of-Mouth Business Referrals and Influentials 295

10 Analyzing the Differences in Two Populations 348

Decision Dilemma: Online Shopping 349

11 Analysis of Variance 408

Decision Dilemma: Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign Self-Initiated Expatriates 409

12 Introduction to Regression Analysis and Correlation 470

Decision Dilemma: Predicting International Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big Mac 471

13 Basic Multiple Regression Analysis 522

Decision Dilemma: Are You Going to Hate Your New Job? 523

14 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis 552

Decision Dilemma: Determining Compensation for CEOs 553

15 Forecasting 602

Decision Dilemma: Forecasting Air Pollution 603

16 Chi-Square Analysis 658

Decision Dilemma: Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry 659

17 Analyzing Data Using Nonparametric Statistics 684

Decision Dilemma: How Is the Doughnut Business? 685

18 Quality 734

Decision Dilemma: Italy's Piaggio Makes a Comeback 735

19 Decision Analysis C19-2

Decision Dilemma: Decision Making at the CEO Level C19-3

APPENDICES

A Tables 779

B Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems 819

GLOSSARY 829

INDEX 839

SUPPLEMENTS

1 Summation Notation S1-1

2 Derivation of Simple Regression Formulas for Slope and y Intercept S2-1

3 Advanced Exponential Smoothing S3-1

Exponential Smoothing with Trend Effects: Holt's Method S3-1

Exponential Smoothing with Both Trend and Seasonality: Winter's Method S3-2

Some Practice Problems S3-5