Transparency matters to accompany statistical techniques in business and economics / Robert D. Mason [and] Douglas A. Lind

What is statistics? -- Summarizing data-frequency distribution and graphic presentation -- Describing data-measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion and skewness -- a survey of probability concepts -- Discrete probability distributions -- The normal probability distribution -- Sampling methods and sampling distributions -- Tests of hypotheses: large samples -- Tests of hypotheses: proportions -- Student's t test: small samples -- Analysis of variance (ANOVA) -- Simple correlation analysis -- Simple regression analysis -- Multiple regression and correlation -- Analysis of nominal-level data : the chi-square distribution -- Nonparametric methods : analysis of ranked data -- Index numbers -- Time series and forecasting -- an introduction to decision making under uncertainty -- Statistical quality control.