Study Guide For Statistics For Business And Financial Economics

Ronald L Moy

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN:
  9789810238315
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9789812815385
• Topic: Mathematics
• Subtopic: Finance
• Index: Mathematics

The organization of this study guide parallels that of Cheng F Lee's Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, providing a comprehensive treatment of every chapter. To maximize students' understanding of the material, the author presents it in a slightly different though complementary way. For each chapter, the study guide provides:Chapter Intuition. Each chapter begins with an intuitive verbal explanation of the chapter's central message on why the chapter is important and where it is headed.Chapter Review. Rather than just giving a simple outline of the chapter, all the key concepts in the chapter are covered in a simple, easy-to-follow account.Useful Formulas. Where appropriate, a list of useful formulas from the chapter is provided so that one need not search the text to find formulas necessary for solving the problems.Example Problems and Solutions. Here, sample problems similar to the problems in the text are provided, along with step-by-step solutions. To provide a guide to solving the problems, each example states the topic that the problem illustrates.Supplementary Exercises. Once the example problems are studied, one's skills can be put to work by solving problems. A variety of exercise types is offered to accommodate various learning styles.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2 DATA COLLECTION AND PRESENTATION
• CHAPTER 3 FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND DATA ANALYSES
• CHAPTER 4 NUMERICAL SUMMARY MEASURES
• 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
• CHAPTER 10 ESTIMATION AND STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL
• CHAPTER 11 HYPOTHESIS TESTING
• CHAPTER 12 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE AND CHI-SQUARE TESTS
• 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
• 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