Description

Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets – 1st Canadian Edition is an adaptation of Thomas K. Tiemann's book/ Introductory Business Statistics. This new edition still contains the basic ideas behind statistics/ such as populations/ samples/ the difference between data and information/ and sampling distributions as well as information on descriptive statistics and frequency distributions/ normal and t-distributions/ hypothesis testing/ t-tests/ f-tests/ analysis of variance/ non-parametric tests/ and regression basics. New topics include the chi-square test and categorical variables/ null and alternative hypotheses for the test of independence/ simple linear regression model/ least squares method/ coefficient of determination/ confidence interval for the average of the dependent variable/ and prediction interval for a specific value of the dependent variable. This new edition also allows readers to learn the basic and most commonly applied statistical techniques in business in an interactive way — when using the web version — through interactive Excel spreadsheets. For each topic/ a customized interactive template has been created within which selected values can be repeatedly changed to observe how the entire process/ as well as the outcomes/ are automatically adjusted. Also/ in this adapted edition/ the real-world examples throughout the text/ and the information in general/ have been revised to reflect Canadian content.