Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success (2014)

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Uncertainties

Chapter 1. The Scarcity of Certainty

Chapter 2. Sources of Uncertainty

Chapter 3. Probability

Part II. Data

Chapter 4. Sampling

Chapter 5. The Raw Data

Part III. Samples

Chapter 6. Descriptive Data

Chapter 7. Numerical Data

Part IV. Comparisons

Chapter 8. Levels of Significance

Chapter 9. General Procedure for Comparisons

Chapter 10. Comparisons with Numerical Data

Chapter 11. Comparisons with Descriptive Data

Chapter 12. Types of Error

Part V. Relationships

Chapter 13. Cause and Effect

Chapter 14. Relationships with Numerical Data

Chapter 15. Relationships with Descriptive Data

Chapter 16. Multivariate Data

Part VI. Forecasts

Chapter 17. Extrapolation

Chapter 18. Forecasting from Known Distributions

Chapter 19. Time Series

Chapter 20. Control Charts

Chapter 21. Reliability

Part VII. Big Data

Chapter 22. Data Mining

Chapter 23. Predictive Analytics

Chapter 24. Getting Involved with Big Data

Chapter 25. Concerns with Big Data

APPENDIX A. References and Further Reading