Practical Statistics ：A Handbook for Business Projects

Publication subTitle ：A Handbook for Business Projects

Author： Buglear John

Publisher： Kogan Page Ltd‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9780749468477

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780749468460

Subject： F22 economic calculation, mathematical method

Keyword：经济计划与管理

Language： ENG

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Description

Practical Statistics is a hands-on guide to statistics, progressing by complexity of data (univariate, bivariate, multivariate) and analysis (portray, summarise, generalise) in order to give the reader a solid understanding of the fundamentals and how to apply them.

Chapter

Contents

Introduction

01 What you need to know before you start analysing data

What is data?

Populations and samples

Measuring risk

The normal distribution and sampling distributions

02 Analysing univariate data

Histograms and boxplots

Measures of location and spread

Inference: estimation and hypothesis testing of population means

Representing non-metric data: pie charts and bar charts

Estimating and hypothesis testing of population proportions using sample proportions

03 Analysing bivariate data

Scatter diagrams

Correlation analysis

Simple linear regression

Non-linear regression

Cluster and stacked bar charts

Contingency analysis

Logistic regression

04 Analysing multivariate data with dependency

Preliminary analysis for multiple regression

Multiple regression analysis

Multiple regression model-building

Discriminant analysis

Multivariate analysis of variance

An outline of canonical correlation analysis

05 Analysing multivariate data for interdependency

Principal components analysis

Factor analysis

Cluster analysis

Cronbach’s a

Coda

Appendix

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

References

Index

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