TY - BOOK AU - Webster,Allen TI - Applied statistics for business and economics SN - 0256073147 AV - HF1017 .W43 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - Homewood, IL PB - Irwin KW - Commercial statistics KW - Economics KW - Statistical methods N1 - Includes index; The role of statistics -- Describing data sets -- Measures of central tendency and dispersion -- Principles of probability -- Probability distributions -- The normal distribution -- Sampling distributions: an introduction to inferential statistics -- Estimating with confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Tests of two populations -- Tests of variances and analysis of variance -- Simple regression and correlation analysis -- Multiple regression and correlation -- Dummy variables and residual analysis: extensions of regression and correlation -- Chi-square and other nonparametric tests -- Time series analysis and forecasting -- Index numbers -- Techniques of quality control ER -