Book: Statistics for Management

Author:T.N.Srivastava & Shailaja Rego

Edition: 2018

This well-known textbook continues to offer comprehensive coverage on use of statistics for managerial decision making. The content in this new edition is very apt for the students to understand, analyse and take decisions in real-life management scenarios. Simple language and rich pedagogy make it an easy-to-understand and appropriate textbook for management students and practicing managers.

Table of Content:

Chapter 1: Introduction—Scope and Applications

Chapter 2: Types, Sources and Collection of Data

Chapter 3: Presentation of Data

Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion

Chapter 5: Probability

Chapter 6: Sampling Techniques

Chapter 7: Statistical Distributions

Chapter 8: Simple Correlation and Regression Analysis

Chapter 9: Multiple Correlation and Regression Analysis

Chapter 10: Statistical Inference

Chapter 11: Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments

Chapter 12: Non-Parametric Tests

Chapter 13: Time Series Analysis

Chapter 14:  Forecasting Method

Chapter 15: Decision Theory

Chapter 16: Index Number

Chapter 17: Role of Statistics in Quality Management

 Appendix I - Excel - A Tool for Statistical Analysis

 Appendix II - Symbols, Notation, Some results and Formulae

 Appendix III - Introduction to IBM® SPSS® Statistics 18

 *  Statistical Tables
 *  Answers to Exercises
 *  Index