TY - BOOK AU - Lind,Douglas A. AU - Marchal, William G. AU - Wathen, Samuel A. TI - Statistical techniques in business and economics. SN - 9780071316989 AV - HA29.M268 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill N1 - Includes index; Contents:What is statistics? -- Describing data: Frequency tables, 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-simple tests of hypothesis -- Two-simple tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Correlation and linear regression -- Multiple regression analysis -- Index numbers -- Time series and forecasting -- Nonparametric methods: Goodness-of-fit tests -- Nonparametric methods: Analysis of ranked data -- Statistical process control and quality management -- An introduction to decision theory. ER -