Table of Contents

Statistics in Management; Data -- Types, Sources and Methods of Collection; Using Excel for Statistical Analysis; Summarising Data Pivot Tables and Graphs; Descriptive Statistics -- Location Measures; Descriptive Statistics -- Dispersion and Skewness Measures; Basic Probability Concepts; Probability Distributions; Sampling and Sampling Distributions; Confidence Interval Estimation; Hypotheses Tests Single Population (Means and Proportions); Hypotheses Tests -- Comparison Between Two Populations (Means and Proportions); Chi-Squared Hypotheses Tests; Analysis of Variance: Comparing Multiple Population Means; Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis; Index Numbers: Measuring Business Activity; Time Series Analysis: A Forecasting Tool; Financial Calculations: Interest, Annuities and NPV.

About the Author

Verne Harnish is founder of Entrepreneurs' Organization and chaired its premiere CEO program, Birthing of Giants, and WEO's Advanced Business executive program, both held at MIT. He is the founder and CEO of Gazelles, Growth Guy syndicated columnist, Venture columnist for FORTUNE magazine, and author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time, and Scaling Up. He chairs Growth Summits around the globe and resides in Barcelona, Spain with his wife and four children.