BUSINESS STATISTICS :

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BUSINESS STATISTICS :

A FIR ST COURSE

EIGHTH EDITION

Dav id M. Levine Kathry n A. Szabat David F. Stephan

GAIL ILLICH

JAMES BALDONE 1 / 4

Copyright ©2020 Pearson Education, Inc.Table of Contents

First Things First ..............................................................................................................................1

Chapter 1 Defining and Collecting Data ................................................................................. 1-1

Chapter 2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables .................................................................... 2-1

Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures ............................................................................ 3-1

Chapter 4 Basic Probability ..................................................................................................... 4-1

Chapter 5 Discrete Probability Distributions ........................................................................... 5-1

Chapter 6 The Normal Distribution ......................................................................................... 6-1

Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions ........................................................................................... 7-1

Chapter 8 Confidence Interval Estimation .............................................................................. 8-1

Chapter 9 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests ...................................... 9-1

Chapter 10 Two-Sample Tests and One-Way ANOVA ......................................................... 10-1

Chapter 11 Chi-Square Tests ................................................................................................... 11-1

Chapter 12 Simple Linear Regression ..................................................................................... 12-1

Chapter 13 Multiple Regression .............................................................................................. 13-1

Chapter 14 Business Analytics ................................................................................................ 14-1

Chapter 15 Statistical Applications in Quality Management (Online) .................................... 15-1

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First Thing First 1

Copyright ©2020 Pearson Education, Inc.First Things First

• The process of using data collected from a small group to reach conclusions about a large group

is called

• statistical inference.

b) DCOVA framework.

• operational definition.
• descriptive statistics.

ANSWER:

a TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy

KEYWORDS: inferential statistics

• Those methods involving the collection, presentation, and characterization of a set of data in

order to properly describe the various features of that set of data are called

• statistical inference.

b) DCOVA framework.

• operational definition.
• descriptive statistics.

ANSWER:

d TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy

KEYWORDS: descriptive statistics

• The collection and summarization of the socioeconomic and physical characteristics of the

employees of a particular firm is an example of

• inferential statistics.
• descriptive statistics.
• operational definition.

d) DCOVA framework.

ANSWER:

b TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy

KEYWORDS: descriptive statistics

• The estimation of the population average family expenditure on food based on the sample average

expenditure of 1,000 families is an example of

• inferential statistics.
• descriptive statistics.

c) DCOVA framework.

• operational definition.

ANSWER:

a TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy

KEYWORDS: inferential statistics

• Which of the following is not an element of descriptive statistical problems?

a) An inference made about the population based on the sample.

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