With Statistics for Management, Levin and Rubin have provided a non-intimidating business statistics book that users can easily read and understand. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition includes the absolute minimum of mathematical/statistical notation necessary to teach the material. Concepts are fully explained in simple, easy-to-understand language as they are presented, making the book an excellent source from which to learn and teach. After each discussion, readers are guided through real-world examples to show how book principles work in professional practice. Includes easy-to-understand explanations of difficult statistical topics, such as sampling distributions, relationship between confidence level and confidence interval, interpreting r-square. A complete package of teaching/learning aids is provided in every chapter, including chapter review exercises, chapter concepts tests,"Statistics at Work" conceptual cases, "Computer Database Exercises," "From the Textbook to the Real-World Examples." This ISBN is in two volumes Part A and Part B.

Teaches students how to apply statistics to real business problems through the authors' unique three-step approach to problem solving. Students learn to identify, compute and interpret the results in the context of the problem.

Primarily intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of management, the book can also be of immense help to the students of commerce, science and economics. The contents of the book cover the syllabi of various Indian universities and B-schools. The book is the outcome of the extensive teaching experience of the authors in various management schools. The text encompasses topics on descriptive statistics and averages, probability and Bayes’ theorem, distributions, sampling techniques, significance tests, chi-square tests and ANOVA. Besides, the book also acquaints the readers with the regression and correlation, and time series and index numbers. Distinguishing Features of the book • Statistics answers your questions in the beginning of each chapter outlines various areas of applications of statistics. • Various supplementary examples aid the students in gaining a thorough understanding of the discussed concept. • The case studies use real, recent and easily understandable data collected from various sources that acquaint the students with the real-life situations. • The self-test and exercises given at the end of each chapter test students’ comprehension of various underlying concepts and principles. • Answers to self-test and hints to exercises are also provided.

This is the first book to introduce senior level students of management science practicing managers to the modern powerful statistical methods that are available for optimizing and improving business processes. Using realistic case studies from businesses, this book explains the key statistical concepts workers in this field need to know. In particular, there is a focus on the use of probabilistic methods and statistical analysis in a business context and the value of these methods for managers. The mathematical explanations are comprehensive with an emphasis on the essential principles.