Business Statistics

Ken Black is currently professor of decision sciences in the School of Business at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Missouri, he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Graceland University, a master's degree in math education from the University of Texas at El Paso, a Ph.D. in business administration in management science, and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of North Texas. Since joining the faculty of UHCL in 1979, Professor Black has taught all levels of statistics courses, forecasting, management science, market research, and production/operations management. In 2005, he was awarded the President's Distinguished teaching Award for the university. He has published over 20 journal articles and 20 professional papers, as well as two textbooks: Business Statistics: An Introductory Course and Business Statistics for contemporary Decision Making. black has consulted for many different companies, including Aetna, the city of Houston, NYLCare, AT&T, Johnson Space center, Southwest Information Resources, Connect Corporation, and Eagle Engineering.

Preface 

1 Introduction to Statistics 

2 Charts and Graphs 

3 Descriptive Statistics 

4 Probability 

5 Discrete Distributions 

6 Continuous Distributions 

7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 

8 Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations 

9 Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations 

10 Statistical Inferences About Two Populations 

11 A nalysis of Variance and Design of Experiments 

12 Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation 

13 Multiple Regression Analysis 

14 Building Multiple Regression Models 

15 Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers 

16 Analysis of Categorical Data 

17 Nonparametric Statistics 

18 Statistical Quality Control 

19 Decision Analysis 

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems