TY - BOOK AU - Mason, D. Robert AU - Lind, A. Douglas TI - Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics SN - 0256126801 AV - HA 29 .M37 1993 PY - 1993/// CY - Boston PB - Irwin N1 - What is statistics? -- Summarizing data-frequency distributions and graphic presentations -- 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: about proportions -- Student's t test: small samples -- Analysis of variance -- 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 uncertainity -- Statistical quality control; Includes appendix ER -