Business Statistics offers readers a foundation in core statistical concepts using a perfect blend of theory and practical application. This book presents business statistics as value added tools in the process of converting data into useful information.

The step-by-step approach used to discuss three main statistical software applications, MS Excel, Minitab, and SPSS, which are critical tools for decision making in the business world, makes this book extremely user friendly. India-centric case studies and examples demonstrate the many uses of statistics in business and economics. The underlying focus on the interpretation of results rather than computation makes this book highly relevant for students and practising managers.

Practice quizzes and true/false questions for students, and lecture slides and solutions manual for instructors are available at http://wps.pearsoned.com/bajpai_businessstatistics_e

1. Introduction to Statistics
2. Charts and Graphs
3. Measures of Central Tendency
4. Measures of Dispersion
5. Probability
6. Discrete Probability Distributions
7. Continuous Probability Distributions
8. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
9. Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations
10. Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations
11. Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Two Populations
12. Analysis of Variance and Experimental Designs
13. Hypothesis Testing for Categorical Data (Chi-Square Test)
14. Simple Linear Regression Analysis
15. Multiple Regression Analysis
16. Time Series and Index Numbers
17. Statistical Quality Control
18. Non-Parametric Statistics
19. Statistical Decision Theory