Essential Statistics for Economics, Business and Management is aimed at introductory undergraduate courses and assumes no prior knowledge of statistics.  It will also be highly relevant for the statistics component of courses in quantitative methods.  The style of the text is similar to that of the highly successful Essential Mathematics for Economics and Business by Teresa Bradley and Paul Patton, with many worked examples integrated throughout.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: Data Collection and its Graphical Presentation 5 1.1 Introduction to statistics 6 1.2 Data collection: Samples, surveys and experiments 8 1.3 Some sources of statistical data 16 1.4 Sorting and classifying data 18 1.5 Charts: Bar charts, pie charts and plotting in Excel 23 1.6 Graphs: Histograms and Ogives. Graphs in Excel 42 1.7 Line and Lorenz graphs 52 1.8 Misleading graphs 59 CHAPTER 2: Descriptive Statistics 63 2.1 Summary statistics for raw data: Mean, quartiles and mode 64 2.2 Summary statistics for grouped data: Mean, quartiles and mode 72 2.3 Measures of dispersion for raw data. Variance, QD, IQR 85 2.4 Measures of dispersion for grouped data. Variance, QD, IQR 92 2.5 Use of calculator for descriptive statistics 94 2.6 Other descriptive statistics. CV, skewness and box plots 96 2.7 Descriptive statistics in Excel 101 CHAPTER 3: Regression and Correlation: Introduction 113 3.1 Introduction to regression: Scatter plots and lines 114 3.2 The least-squares line. Criteria and equation for the best fit line 118 3.3 Excel: XY (scatter) plots, the least-squares lines and formulae 127 3.4 Coefficient of determination and correlation 133 3.5 Rank correlation. Calculate and interpret rank correlation 144 3.6 Use the calculator for linear regression and correlation 146 3.7 Why bother with formulae? 154 CHAPTER 4: Probability 159 4.1 Introduction to probability 159 4.2 Multiplication and addition rules for probability 170 4.3 Joint, marginal and conditional probability 184 4.4 Bayes' Rule 192 CHAPTER 5: Introduction to Probability Distributions 205 5.1 Introduction to probability distributions and random variables 206 5.2 The Binomial probability distribution 212 5.3 The Poisson probability distribution 228 5.4 The Normal probability distribution 236 5.5 Expected values (mathematical expectation) 253 CHAPTER 6: Sampling Distributions for Means and Proportions 265 6.1 Statistical inference and the sampling distribution of the mean 265 6.2 Sampling distribution of proportions 275 6.3 Some desirable properties of estimators 282 CHAPTER 7: Confidence Intervals for Means and Proportions 287 7.1 Confidence intervals for the mean 287 7.2 Confidence intervals for proportions 297 7.3 The precision of confidence intervals for the mean 300 7.4 Confidence intervals for differences between means and proportions 304 CHAPTER 8: Tests of Hypothesis for Means and Proportions 319 8.1 Hypothesis tests for means 319 8.2 Hypothesis tests for proportions 334 8.3 Hypothesis tests for the difference between means and proportions 337 8.4 Minitab and Excel for confidence intervals and tests of hypothesis 349 CHAPTER 9: Inference from Small Samples. Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypothesis 359 9.1 Inference from small samples: Normal populations, s known 360 9.2 The Student's t distribution 362 9.3 Inference from small samples: Normal populations, s NOT known 365 9.4 Difference between means. Small independent samples 370 9.5 F-test for equality of two variances 378 9.6 Difference between means, paired samples 382 CHAPTER 10: Analysis of Variance 393 10.1 The rationale behind one-way analysis of variance 393 10.2 One-way analysis of variance 397 10.3 Two-way ANOVA 419 10.4 ANOVA and design of experiment 430 10.5 Excel and Minitab for ANOVA 435 CHAPTER 11: Chi-squared Tests 453 11.1 Introduction 454 11.2 The ?2 probability distribution 454 11.3 Contingency tables 455 11.4 ?2 tests for independence (no association) 456 11.5 ?2 test for homogeneous populations 464 11.6 ?2 tests for the equality of several proportions 466 11.7 Goodness of fit tests 478 11.8 ?2 tests in Minitab and Excel 490 CHAPTER 12: Regression Analysis 499 12.1 The simple linear regression model 499 12.2 Inference about the population slope (rate of change) 504 12.3 Confidence intervals and prediction intervals at x = x0 513 12.4 Checks on the model assumptions based on residuals plots 518 12.5 Regression analysis in Minitab and Excel 521 12.6 Multiple regression 534 APPENDIX A: Technicalities and Conventions for Defining Class Intervals, Mid-Interval, Widths, Limits, Boundaries 545 APPENDIX B: Formulae for Calculating the Quartiles for Grouped Data 547 APPENDIX C: Outline of Derivation of Formulae (3.2) and (3.3) for the Slope and Intercept of the Least-Squares Line, Y = a + bX 549 APPENDIX D: Brief Review of the Mathematics for the Binomial 551 APPENDIX E: The Number e 555 APPENDIX F: Calculation of Mean and Variance of Proportions by Expected Values 557 APPENDIX G: Confidence Intervals for Means and Proportions 559 APPENDIX H: Degrees of Freedom 561 APPENDIX I: Notes on Summations and Double Summations 563 APPENDIX J: Expressing the Estimates of Variance as Sums of Squares Divided by Degrees of Freedom in Their Simplest Form 567 APPENDIX K: Sums of Squares for the One-Way ANOVA 571 APPENDIX L: Fitted Values and Residuals 573 APPENDIX M: Sums of Squares Identity for Two-Way ANOVA 575 Chapter Solutions 577 Tables 637 Table 1 Cumulative Binomial Probability tables 637 Table 2 Cumulative Poisson Probabilities 639 Table 3 Normal probability Distribution 641 Table 4 Percentage point for the Normal probability distribution 642 Table 5 Percentage points of the Student’s t-distribution 643 Table 6 0.5% points of the F-distribution 644 Table 7 Percentage points for the Chi-squared distribution 648 Table 8 Table of random numbers 649 Glossary 651 Index 653