TY - BOOK AU - Lind,Douglas A. AU - Marchal,William G. AU - Wathen,Samuel Adam TI - Statistical techniques in business & economics T2 - McGraw-Hill/Irwin series. Operations and decision sciences SN - 0072868244 (alk. paper) AV - HA29 .L75 2005 U1 - 519.5 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill Irwin KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Economics KW - Commercial statistics N1 - Student CD-ROM includes tutorials, quizzes, solved problems, data sets, and data files; Includes index; What is statistics? -- Describing data: frequency distributions and graphic presentation -- Describing data: numerical measures -- Describing data: displaying and exploring data -- A survey of probability concepts -- Discrete probability distributions -- Continuous probability distributions -- Sampling methods and the central limit theorem -- Estimation and confidence intervals -- One-sample tests of hypothesis -- Two-sample tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression and correlation analysis -- Nonparametric methods: chi-square applications -- Nonparametric methods: analysis of ranked data -- Statistical quality control -- Index numbers -- Time series and forecasting -- An introduction to decision theory ER -