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Business Analysis Using Regression

A Casebook

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Fitting Equations to Data

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 1-38
  3. Assumptions in Regression Modeling

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 39-83
  4. Prediction and confidence intervals in regression

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 85-104
  5. Multiple regression

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 105-132
  6. Collinearity

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 133-155
  7. Modeling Categorical Factors with Two Levels

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 157-176
  8. Modeling Categorical Factors with Two or More Levels

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 177-198
  9. Summary Regression Case

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 199-227
  10. Comparing Many Mean Values

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 229-250
  11. Analysis of Variance with two Factors

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 251-271
  12. Modeling a Categorical Response

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 273-298
  13. Modeling Time Series

    • Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman
    Pages 299-332
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 333-348

About this book

Preface Statistics is seldom the most eagerly anticipated course of a business student. It typically has the reputation ofbeing aboring, complicated, and confusing mix of mathematical formulas and computers. Our goal in writing this casebook and the companion volume (Basic Business Statistics) was to change that impression by showing how statistics gives insights and answers interesting business questions. Rather than dwell on underlying formulas, we show how to use statistics to answer questions. Each case study begins with a business question and concludes with an answer. Formulas appear only as needed to address the questions, and we focus on the insights into the problem provided by the mathematics. The mathematics serves a purpose. The material is organized into 12 "classes" of related case studies that develop a single, key idea of statistics. The analysis of data using statistics is seldom very straightforward, and each analysis has many nuances. Part ofthe appeal ofstatistics is this richness, this blending of substantive theories and mathematics. For a newcomer, however, this blend is too rich and they are easily overwhelmed and unable to sort out the important ideas from nuances. Although later cases in these notes suggest this complexity, we do not begin that way. Each class has one main idea, something big like standard error. We begin a class by discussing an application chosen to motivate this key concept, and introduce the necessary terminology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Business Analysis Using Regression

  • Book Subtitle: A Casebook

  • Authors: Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, Richard P. Waterman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0683-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98356-1Published: 16 March 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0683-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 168 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Statistics, general

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