TY - BOOK AU - Croucher,John S. AU - Oliver,Eddie TI - Statistics: a modern introduction for business and management SN - 9780074521878 AV - QA276.12 .C76 1986 U1 - 519.5 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Statistics N1 - Includes index; Introduction -- Sampling -- Presentation of data -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- Probability and distributions -- The normal distribution -- Binomial systems -- Discrete distributions -- The behaviour of averages : the central limit theorem -- Principles of statistical inference -- One sample tests -- Estimation and confidence intervals -- Two sample tests -- Analysis of frequency data -- Correlation -- Linear regression -- Time series and trend analysis -- Index numbers -- The computer program comstat -- Miscellaneous exercises ER -