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The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics
Fifth Edition| ©2020 Layth C. Alwan; Bruce A. Craig; George P. McCabe
Now available with Macmillan’s online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (PSBE) helps students develop a working knowledge of data production and interpretation in a business and economics context, giving them the practical t...
Now available with Macmillan’s online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (PSBE) helps students develop a working knowledge of data production and interpretation in a business and economics context, giving them the practical tools they need to make data-informed, real-world business decisions from the first day of class.
Achieve for The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics connects the problem-solving approach and real world examples in the book to rich digital resources that foster further understanding and application of statistics. Assets in Achieve support learning before, during, and after class for students, while providing instructors with class performance analytics in an easy-to-use interface.
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Now available with Macmillan’s online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (PSBE) helps students develop a working knowledge of data production and interpretation in a business and economics context, giving them the practical tools they need to make data-informed, real-world business decisions from the first day of class.
Achieve for The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics connects the problem-solving approach and real world examples in the book to rich digital resources that foster further understanding and application of statistics. Assets in Achieve support learning before, during, and after class for students, while providing instructors with class performance analytics in an easy-to-use interface.
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PSBE examines the nature of modern statistical practice at a level suitable for beginners. Focus not only on the analysis of data and the traditional topics of probability and inference but also on the sources and production of data.
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PSBE uses real examples and exercises from business and economics to illustrate and enforce key ideas. Students learn the technique of leastsquares regression and how to interpret the regression slope. But they also learn the conceptual ties between regression and correlation, the importance of looking for influential observations.
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PSBE is aware of current developments both in statistical science and in teaching statistics. Brief, optional “Beyond the Basics” sections give quick overviews of topics such as density estimation, the bootstrap, big data, relative risk, regression trees, and meta-analysis.
Achieve Online Homework
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- Multi-part questions
- Questions with algorithmically regenerating values
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing puts the concept of "testing to learn" into action, motivating students to engage with the text's content to identify areas of proficiency. Easy-to-use reporting tools help teachers pinpoint areas to focus on in class.
\ - A mobile, interactive e-book, powered by VitalSource, allows students to highlight and take notes, print select pages, and have the text read aloud to them.
- Over 140 StatTutors--multimedia tutorials that explore important concepts and procedures in a presentation that combines video, audio, and interactive features--are assignable, gradeable, and organized by chapter.
- Applet Activities are visual interactives that allow students to manipulate data and variables in calculations and see the results graphically. Applets also contain assessment questions to test students’ comprehension.
- Videos provide additional exposure to key concepts and examples. Videos are narrated and close-captioned. Video types include
- Whiteboard-style problem-solving videos
- StatTutor video lessons
- Animated lectures and documentary-style videos that illustrate real world scenarios involving statistics
- EESEE (Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises) Case Studies, developed by the Ohio State University Statistics Department, teach students to apply their statistical skills by exploring actual case studies using real data.
- Video Technology Manuals are brief instructional videos that provide basic introductions for working with CrunchIt!, Excel, SPSS, TI-83/84 calculators, JMP, Minitab, R, and RCmdr.
Statistical software options
- CrunchIt!, Macmillan’s proprietary online statistical software powered by R, handles every computation and graphing function an introductory statistics student needs. CrunchIt! is preloaded with data sets, and it allows editing and importing additional data.
- Students also receive access to JMP Student Edition (developed by SAS). With the student edition of JMP, students handle large data, visualizations, and analysis for which the professional version is renowned. Additionally, text-specific data sets are included for download.
- For other statistical software, Achieve includes data sets, including those for
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- SPSS
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- Mac-text & PC-text
- CSV file export
New to This Edition
● Learning objectives. At the beginning of each section in every chapter, learning objectives are designed to give an overview of what the students are expected to be able to do when they complete their study of the section. Students are not only expected to learn basic concepts; they are expected to acquire the skills needed to apply these concepts in realistic situations.● Increased emphasis on software. Software displays have been updated and are given additional prominence. Carefully selected instances of output can be switched to match whatever software the student is using when working in our Achieve e-book. In addition, video links are supplied at various places in each chapter so students can see how specific analyses are performed using Excel, JMP, Minitab, and R.
● Exercises and examples. Over 60% of the exercises and examples are new or revised, with clearer correlation to business and economics.
● Examining distributions. Similarities and differences in methods for categorical data and quantitative data are given additional emphasis, and concerns of reviewers on particular issues have been addressed (Chapter 1).
● Examining relationships. Material in the Introduction and the first section of Chapter 2 have been reorganized, and a brief treatment of covariance has been added.
● Producing data. Chapter 3 has been revised to strengthen connections with the material on examining distributions in the first chapter.
● Probability and random variables. The sections on probability models and general probability rules have been reorganized so they are now self-contained in one chapter (Chapter 4). The sections on random variables that previously appeared across two chapters now appear in one chapter (Chapter 5) devoted to random variables and common distributions for random variables. Given this reorganization, sections on common discrete distributions (covering the binomial and Poisson distributions) and common continuous distributions (covering the uniform distribution, a revisiting of the Normal distribution, and the exponential distribution) are now included.
● Common distributions. Given our reorganization of random variable topics into a single chapter (Chapter 5), we now include a section on common discrete distributions and a section on common continuous distributions. The section on discrete distribution covers the binomial and Poisson distributions. The section on continuous distributions covers the uniform distribution, a revisiting of the Normal distribution, and the exponential distribution.
● Introduction to inference. The introduction to inference has been reorganized into two shorter chapters. The first chapter (Chapter 6) focuses solely on sampling distributions. The second chapter (Chapter 7) focuses on inference for one mean with the population standard deviation known. This includes new subsections more clearly delineating the basic steps of hypothesis testing as well as expanded discussion of the uses and abuses of tests. Finally, this chapter introduces a new section on prediction intervals for a single variable, a very relevant topic when considering predictive analytics.
● Inference for means. The introductory material on power is now combined with the material on sample size calculations for means in the last section of this chapter (Chapter 8). In addition, the material on inference as a decision, which includes discussion of Type I and Type II errors and their relationship with power, appears in this section.
● One-way analysis of variance. This chapter (Chapter 9) has been moved to follow inference for means so the book’s flow is now methods to compare one, two, and then more than two means followed by one, two, and then more than two proportions/two-way tables.
● Sample size determination using software for means and proportions. Additional material on choosing sample sizes for one, two, and more than two means as well as one and two proportions is included in Chapters 8, 9, and 10, respectively.
● Inference for proportions. This material has been moved to Chapter 10. Some potentially confusing issues related to percents and proportions have been clarified and the plus four procedures have been moved to Beyond the Basics items.
● Inference for categorical data. This material has been moved to Chapter 11. An introduction has been added and the exercise structure has been changed so that exercises appear after each section with chapter exercises at the end. Enhanced connections between the concepts in this chapter and those in Chapter 2 (descriptive statistics for two-way tables) and Chapter 4 (probability models) have been added.
● Time Series. Chapter 14 has been reorganized so that smoothing methods (moving-average and exponential smoothing) are introduced before regression-based forecasting methods. We have added the topic on the computation seasonal additive indexes along with the computation of seasonal ratios. There is new detailed discussion on the contrasting of random processes versus nonrandom processes. We have added two new Beyond the Basics sections, one on Dickey-Fuller tests and the other on ARCH models.
● Quality Control. Chapter 15 was reorganized so that there is a standalone section on process capability. The chapter includes new discussion on the underlying assumptions of control charts.


The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics
Fifth Edition| ©2020
Layth C. Alwan; Bruce A. Craig; George P. McCabe
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The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics
Fifth Edition| 2020
Layth C. Alwan; Bruce A. Craig; George P. McCabe
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Examining Distributions
CHAPTER 2 Examining Relationships
CHAPTER 3 Producing Data
CHAPTER 4 Probability: The Study of Randomness
CHAPTER 5 Random Variables and Probability Distributions
CHAPTER 6 Sampling Distributions
CHAPTER 7 Introduction to Inference
CHAPTER 8 Inference for Means
CHAPTER 9 One-Way Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER 10 Inference for Proportions
CHAPTER 11 Inference for Categorical Data
CHAPTER 12 Inference for Regression
CHAPTER 13 Multiple Regression
CHAPTER 14 Time Series Forecasting
The Core book includes Chapters 1 – 14 . Chapters 15 – 18 are
individual optional Companion Chapters and can be found on the
Student Site, listed on the main catalog page.
CHAPTER 15 Statistics for Quality: Control and Capability
CHAPTER 16 Two-Way Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER 17 Nonparametric Tests
CHAPTER 18 Logistic Regression


The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics
Fifth Edition| 2020
Layth C. Alwan; Bruce A. Craig; George P. McCabe
Authors

Layth C. Alwan

Bruce A. Craig

George P. McCabe
Professor McCabe’s research has focused on applications of statistics. Much of his recent work has been on problems of nutrition, including nutrient requirements, calcium metabolism, and bone health. He is author or coauthor of more than 160 publications in many different journals.


The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics
Fifth Edition| 2020
Layth C. Alwan; Bruce A. Craig; George P. McCabe
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