ABSTRACT

Stats Means Business is an introductory and comprehensive textbook written especially for Hospitality, Business and Tourism students who take statistics or quantitative methods modules. By minimising technical language, providing clear definitions of key terms and giving emphasis to interpretation rather than technique, this book caters to beginners in the subject.

This book enables readers to appreciate the importance of statistical analysis in hospitality, tourism and other fields of business, understand statistical techniques, develop judgement in the selection of appropriate statistical techniques and interpret the results of statistical analysis.

This new edition has been fully revised and updated to include:

  • New content on business analytics
  • Case studies demonstrating practical applications
  • An extensive selection of new self-test questions

Stats Means Business is an ideal, accessible and practical introduction to statistics and quantitative research methods for Hospitality, Business and Tourism students.

Visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/buglear for bonus teaching and learning resources. 

chapter 1|20 pages

Numbers in business

The basics

chapter 2|30 pages

Presenting data

chapter 3|32 pages

Summarising values of a single variable

chapter 4|31 pages

Summarising bivariate data

chapter 5|22 pages

Assessing risk

chapter 6|19 pages

Putting probability to work

chapter 7|28 pages

Modelling populations

chapter 8|34 pages

Statistical decision-making

chapter 10|15 pages

Introducing business analytics

chapter 11|17 pages

Managing statistical research