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Preface xvii About the Author xxvii INTRODUCTION 1 What Is Statistics 02 Decision Dilemma: Statistics Describe the State of Business in India???s Countryside 03 2 Visualizing the Data 18 Decision Dilemma: Container Shipping Companies 19 3 Describing Data Through Statistics 52 Decision Dilemma: Laundry Statistics 53 5 Discrete Probability Distributions 142 Decision Dilemma: Life with a Cell Phone 143 6 Continuous Probability Distributions 184 Decision Dilemma: The Cost of Human Resources 185 7 Distributions of the Sample Mean and Sample Proportion and Sampling Techniques 222 Decision Dilemma: What Is the Attitude of Maquiladora Workers? 223 8 Estimating Parameters for Single Populations 256 Decision Dilemma: Compensation for Purchasing Managers 257 9 Testing Hypotheses about Single Population Parameters 294 Decision Dilemma: Word–of–Mouth Business Referrals and Influentials 295 10 Analyzing the Differences in Two Populations 348 Decision Dilemma: Online Shopping 349 11 Analysis of Variance 408 Decision Dilemma: Job and Career Satisfaction of Foreign Self–Initiated Expatriates 409 12 Introduction to Regression Analysis and Correlation 470 Decision Dilemma: Predicting International Hourly Wages by the Price of a Big Mac 471 13 Basic Multiple Regression Analysis 522 Decision Dilemma: Are You Going to Hate Your New Job? 523 14 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis 552 Decision Dilemma: Determining Compensation for CEOs 553 15 Forecasting 602 Decision Dilemma: Forecasting Air Pollution 603 16 Chi–Square Analysis 658 Decision Dilemma: Selecting Suppliers in the Electronics Industry 659 17 Analyzing Data Using Nonparametric Statistics 684 Decision Dilemma: How Is the Doughnut Business? 685 18 Quality 734 Decision Dilemma: Italy???s Piaggio Makes a Comeback 735 19 Decision Analysis C19–2 Decision Dilemma: Decision Making at the CEO Level C19–3 APPENDICES A Tables 779 B Answers to Selected Odd–Numbered Quantitative Problems 819 GLOSSARY 829 INDEX 839 SUPPLEMENTS 1 Summation Notation S1–1 2 Derivation of Simple Regression Formulas for Slope and y Intercept S2–1 3 Advanced Exponential Smoothing S3–1 Exponential Smoothing with Trend Effects: Holt???s Method S3–1 Exponential Smoothing with Both Trend and Seasonality: Winter???s Method S3–2 Some Practice Problems S3–5