Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics

by Douglas A. Lind; Robert D. Mason

• ISBN13: 9780256103380
• ISBN10: 0256103380
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: MCG IRWIN

Table of Contents

What Is Statistics?	p. 1
Summarizing Data - Frequency Distributions and Graphic Presentation	p. 21
Describing Data - Measures of Central Tendency	p. 73
Measures of Dispersion and Skewness	p. 111
A Survey of Probability Concepts	p. 161
Discrete Probability Distributions	p. 211
The Normal Probability Distribution	p. 249
Sampling Methods and Sampling Distributions	p. 285
Tests of Hypotheses: Large Samples	p. 333
Tests of Hypotheses: Proportions	p. 369
Student's t Test: Small Samples	p. 393
Analysis of Variance	p. 423
Simple Correlation Analysis	p. 465
Simple Regression Analysis	p. 497
Multiple Regression and Correlation	p. 531
Analysis of Nominal-Level Data: The Chi-Square Distribution	p. 575
Nonparametric Methods: Analysis of Ranked Data	p. 605
Index Numbers	p. 649
Time Series and Forecasting	p. 683
An Introduction to Decision Making under Uncertainty	p. 721
Statistical Quality Control	p. 743
Appendixes: Tables and Data Sets	p. 781
Answers: Odd-Numbered Chapter Exercises	p. 817
Answers: Odd-Numbered Chapter Review Exercises	p. 862
Index	p. 867
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