Better Business Decisions from Data Statistical Analysis for Professional Success
Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you’re a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Busin...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
Apress
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Colección: | Expert's voice in data analysis
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629649306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Uncertainties""; ""Chapter 1: The Scarcity of Certainty""; ""Chapter 2: Sources of Uncertainty""; ""Statistical Data""; ""Processing the Data""; ""Chapter 3: Probability""; ""Probability Defined""; ""Combining Probabilities""; ""Conditional Probability""; ""Part II: Data""; ""Chapter 4: Sampling""; ""Problems with Sampling""; ""Repeated Measurements""; ""Simple Random Sampling""; ""Systematic Sampling""; ""Stratified Random Sampling""; ""Cluster Sampling""; ""Quota Sampling""
- ""Sequential Sampling""""Databases""; ""Resampling Methods""; ""Data Sequences""; ""Chapter 5: The Raw Data""; ""Descriptive or Numerical""; ""Format of Numbers""; ""Rounding""; ""Percentages""; ""Simple Index Numbers""; ""Part III: SamplesThe""; ""Chapter 6: Descriptive Data""; ""Diagrammatic Representation""; ""Proportion""; ""Chapter 7: Numerical Data""; ""Diagrammatic Representation""; ""Normally Distributed Data""; ""Distribution Type""; ""Averages""; ""Spread of Data""; ""Grouped Data""; ""Pooling and Weighting""; ""Estimated Population Properties""; ""Confidence Intervals""
- ""Part IV: Comparisons""""Chapter 8: Levels of Significance""; ""Chapter 9: General Procedure for Comparisons""; ""Chapter 10: Comparisons with Numerical Data""; ""Single Value""; ""Mean of a Sample""; ""Difference between Variances""; ""Difference between Means""; ""Means of Paired Data""; ""Multiple Samples""; ""Chapter 11: Comparisons with Descriptive Data""; ""Single Proportion""; ""Difference between Proportions""; ""Ranks""; ""Ranks of Paired Data""; ""Duplicate Ranks""; ""Chapter 12: Types of Error""; ""Part V: Relationships""; ""Chapter 13: Cause and Effect""
- ""Chapter 14: Relationships with Numerical Data""""Linear Relationships""; ""Nonlinear Relationships""; ""Irregular Relationships""; ""Chapter 15: Relationships with Descriptive Data""; ""Nominal Data""; ""Ordinal Data""; ""Chapter 16: Multivariate Data""; ""Multiple Regression""; ""Analysis of Variance""; ""Latin and Graeco-Latin Squares""; ""Multidimensional Contingency Tables""; ""Multivariate Analysis of Variance""; ""Conjoint Analysis""; ""Proximity Maps""; ""Structural Equation Modeling""; ""Association: Some Further Methods""; ""Part VI: Forecasts""; ""Chapter 17: Extrapolation""
- ""Chapter 18: Forecasting from Known Distributions""""Uniform Distribution""; ""Normal Distribution""; ""Binomial Distribution""; ""Poisson Distribution""; ""Exponential Distribution""; ""Geometric Distribution""; ""Weibull Distribution""; ""Chapter 19: Time Series""; ""Regression""; ""Autocorrelation""; ""Exponential Smoothing""; ""Chapter 20: Control Charts""; ""Sampling by Variable""; ""Sampling by Attribute""; ""Chapter 21: Reliability""; ""Basic Principles""; ""Reliability Data""; ""Distributions""; ""Practical Complications""; ""Part VII: Big Data""; ""Chapter 22: Data Mining""
- ""The Growth of Data""
