Statistical Methods for Business and Economics

Preface Guided Tour
Technology to enhance teaching and learning

1. Introduction and basic concepts

Part 1: Descriptive Statistics
2. Tables and graphs
3. Measures of location
4. Measures of variation
5. Pairs of variables

Part 2: Probability
6. Definitions of Probability
7. Calculation of probabilities
8. Probability distribution, expectation, variance
9. Families of discrete distributions
10. Families of continuous distributions
11. Joint probability distributions

Part 3: Sampling theory
12. Random samples
13. The sample mean
14. Sample proportion and other sample statistics

Part 4: Inferential statistics
15. Interval estimation and hypothesis testing: a general introduction
16. Confidence intervals and tests for and
17. Statistical inference about
18. Confidence intervals and tests to compare two parameters
19. Simple linear regression
20. Multiple linear regression: introduction
21. Multiple linear regression: extension
22. Multiple linear regression: model violations
23. Time series and forecasting
24. Chi-squared tests
25. Nonparametric statistics

Appendix A1: Excel and SPSS (on Internet)
Appendix A2: Summation operator?
Appendix A3: Greek letters
Appendix A4: Tables
Appendix A5: Numeric answers of exercises