Understanding Statistics in the Workplace

Collecting Information

A Closer Look at the Types of Data

Creating and Interpreting Graphs

Descriptive Statistics

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Variability

What Correlation Can Say

Making Inferences Using Probability and Chance

Probability and Chance

Statistical Significance

The only "company" discussed in the Appendix is Preferred Printing and Packaging. What makes the most sense here would be to search for statistical information relevant to what you wish to understand. You may wish to look for data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Otherwise, you may wish to go instead to the Alphabetical Index or to the Search page.

Go to the Main page for the Index of Companies.

Go to the Alphabetical Index of Companies.

Prepared by Mark Garrison, January, 1998