商业及金融经济中的统计学STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, 2ND ED

This is an extensively revised edition of a popular statistics textbook for business and economics students. The first edition has been adopted by universities and colleges worldwide, including New York University, Carnegie Mellon University and UCLA.
Designed for upper-level undergraduates, MBA and other graduate students, this book closely integrates various statistical techniques with concepts from business, economics and finance and clearly demonstrates the power of statistical methods in the real world of business. While maintaining the essence of the first edition, the new edition places more emphasis on finance, economics and accounting concepts with updated sample data. Students will find this book very accessible with its straightforward language, ample cases, examples, illustrations and real-life applications. The book is also useful for financial analysts and portfolio managers.

Part I Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter 2 Data Collection and Presentation
Chapter 3 Frequency Distribution and Data Analyses
Chapter 4 Numerical Summary Measures
Part II Probability and Important Distributions
Chapter 5 Probability Concepts and Their Analysis
Chapter 6 Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions
Chapter 7 The Normal and Lognormal Distributions
Chapter 8 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 9 Other Continuous Distributions and Moments
for Distributions
Part III Statistical Inferences Based on Samples
Chapter 10 Estimation and Statistical Quality Control
Chapter II Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance and Chi-Square Tests
Part IV Regression and Correlation: Relating Two or More Variables
Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression and the Correlation Coefficient
Chapter 14 Simple Linear Regression and Correlation: Analyses and Applications
Chapter 15 Multiple Linear Regression
Chapter 16 Other Topics in Applied Regression Analysis
Part V Selected Topics in Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics
Chapter 17 Nonparametric Statistics
Chapter 18 Time-Series: Analysis, Model, and Forecasting
Chapter 19 Index Numbers and Stock Market Indexes
Chapter 20 Sampling Surveys: Methods and Applications
Chapter 21 Statistical Decision Theory: Methods and Applications
Appendix A Statistical Tables
Appendix B Description of Data Sets
Appendix C Introduction to MINITAB: Microcomputer Version
Appendix D Introduction to SAS: Microcomputer Version
Appendix E Useful Formulas in Statistics
Appendix F Important Finance Topics
Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems
Index