TY - BOOK AU - Mason, Robert D. AU - Lind, Douglas A. TI - Transparency matters to accompany statistical techniques in business and economics SN - 9780256128277 AV - HA29 .M37 1993 PY - 1993/// CY - Boston PB - IRWIN N1 - 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 ER -