Includes bibliographical references (p. 855-856) and indexes.

Contents: An Introduction to business statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Continuous random variables -- Sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Statistical inferences based on two samples -- Experimental design and analysis of varaince -- Simple linear regression analysis -- Multiple regression and model building -- Time series forecasting -- Process improvement using control charts -- Nonparametric methods -- Chi-square tests -- Decision theory -- Appendix A: Statistical tables -- Appendix B: Counting rules -- Appendix C: The hypergeometric distribution -- Appendix D: Properties of the mean and the variance of a random variable and the covariance -- Appendix E: Derivations of the mean and variance of x and p -- Appendix F: Stratiifed random sampling -- Appendix G: Using matrix algebra to perform regression calculations -- Appendix H: The regression approach to two-way analysis of variance -- Appendix I: Factor analysis, cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling -- Appendix J: The box-jenkins methodology -- Appendix K: Holt-winters' models -- Appendix L -- Individuals charts and c charts -- Appendix M: List of cases.

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