Statistics for Business and Financial Economics / Edition 3

by Cheng-Few Lee, John C. Lee, Alice C. Lee

Overview

Statisticsfor Business and Financial Economics, 3rd edition is the definitive Business Statistics bookto useFinance, Economics, and Accounting data throughout the entire book. Therefore, this book gives students an understanding of how to apply the methodology of statistics to real world situations. In particular, this book shows how descriptive statistics, probability, statistical distributions, statistical inference, regression methods, and statistical decision theory can be used to analyze individual stock price, stock index, stock rate of return, market rate of return, and decision making. In addition, this book also shows how time-series analysis and the statistical decision theory method can be used to analyze accounting and financial data. In this fully-revised edition, the real world examples have been reconfigured and sections have beenedited for better understanding of the topics.

On the Springer page for the book, the solution manual, test bank and powerpoints are available for download.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461458968
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	03/08/2013
Edition description:	3rd ed. 2013
Pages:	1206
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cheng-Few Lee is a professor of Finance and Economics at the Rutgers University Business School. Professor Lee is the Editor of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA), and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies. He is the Director of the Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and the Conference on Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance. He has published more than 170 articles in journals including the Journal of Finance, JFQA, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Management Science. Professor Lee has written six books on corporate finance, portfolio management, business statistics and urban econometrics.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Descriptive Statistics.- Probability and Important Distributions.- Statistical Inferences Based on Samples.- Regression and Correlation: Relating Two or More Variables.- Selected Topics in Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics.- Appendices.- Index.