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Business Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Business Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Alan Anderson
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
400 pages
9h 3m
English
For Dummies
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Index

Symbols

  • { } (braces), 98
  • ^ (caret), 297
  • | (conditional probabilities), 108–109
  • = (equals sign), 317
  • ! (exclamation point), 130
  • ! (factorial operator), 130
  • ∩ (intersections), 100–101
  • λ (lambda), 138–139
  • μ (mean, population), 38, 162
  • ϵ (membership in set), 98
  • −∞ (negative infinity), 163–164
  • − (negative key), 163–164
  • ( ) (parentheses), 317
  • ∞ (positive infinity), 155, 164
  • σ. See standard deviation
  • ∑ (summation operator), 36, 122
  • ± (two values), 195
  • ∪ (union), 99–100

Numbers

  • 1-Var Stats function, 51, 70, 93
  • 2-SampFTest, 284–285
  • 2SampTTest, 241–243
  • 2SampZTest, 239–241
  • 2-Var Stats function, 92–93

A

  • absolute terms, 69
  • accuracy, samples and, 172
  • addition rule, 14, 110–112
  • alternative hypothesis, 18–19
    • with dependent samples, 233
    • population variance, 251–253
      • equality of two, 279
      • left-tailed test, 252
      • two-tailed test, 252–253
    • for single population mean, 206–209
      • left-tailed test, 208
      • right-tailed test, 207–208
      • two-tailed test, 209
    • t-test, 306–307
    • for two population means, 224
  • Analysis ToolPak, 334–342
    • correlation, 335–337
    • covariance, 335–337
    • descriptive statistics, 337–338
    • hypothesis testing, 340–342
    • regression analysis, 338–340
  • arguments, 317
  • arithmetic mean, 36–38
    • calculating population arithmetic mean, 38
    • calculating sample arithmetic mean, 36–37
  • arrangements, 130, 263
  • assumption of normality, 349
  • autocorrelation, 313
  • average. See mean

B

  • bell-shaped curve
    • normal distribution, 16, 149–150
    • t-distribution, 188
  • binomcdf function, 142
  • BINOM.DIST ...
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