Bowerman, Bruce L. creator O'Connell, Richard T. Orris, J. B. text bibliography mau Boston McGraw-Hill/Irwin c2003 2003 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xx, 864 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. + 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. Bruce L. Bowerman, Richard T. O'Connell ; with MegaStat and other contributions by J. Burdeane Orris. Includes bibliographical references (p. 855-856) and indexes. System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: PC: Pentium base processor, Windows 98/2000. Internet Explorer 5.5 as default browser. Commercial statistics Statistics HF1017.B654 519.5/024/65 0072470267 2002112963 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2002112963-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2002112963-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2002112963-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2002112963-t.html DLC 020912 20210414113934.0 12926813