Statistics for Business Students: A Guide to Using Excel & IBM SPSS Statistics

Statistics for Business Students (ISBN: 978-1-63795-762-2) brings the teaching of statistics into the 21st century. Rather than focusing on mathematics behind formulae, this textbook uses two most used platforms to teach the subject, and these are Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS. The emphasis is on applications, understanding what the functions deliver, and how to interpret the results. A brief content of this 756-page book is: Preface Chapter 1 Data Visualisation Chapter 2 Descriptive statistics Chapter 3 Probability distributions Chapter 4 Sampling distributions Chapter 5 Point and interval estimates Chapter 6 Hypothesis testing Chapter 7 Parametric hypothesis tests Chapter 8 Nonparametric tests Chapter 9 Linear correlation and regression analysis Chapter 10 Introduction to time series data, long term forecasts and seasonality Chapter 11 Short and medium-term forecasts Appendices Index The book is accompanied by a website https://stats-bus.co.uk which acts as a repository for both students and lecturers. The lecturer resources are password protected and accessible only by registered and genuine lecturers. The website includes the following resources: all Excel and SPSS data files with solutions, revision pointers, video files, maths refresher, comprehensive introduction to Excel and SPSS, a series of files dedicated to “Want to learn more” category, as well as a variety of resources for lecturers, such as PowerPoint lecture files, comprehensive Instructors’ manual, multiple choice and exam questions, and much more.