Statistics for business and economics /
Paul Newbold, William L. Carlson, Betty M. Thorne.
- 6th ed.
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
- xxii, 984 + various pagings: ill. ; 26 cm. +
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Why Study statistics? -- Describing data: graphical -- Describing data: numerical -- Probability -- Discrete random variables and probability distributions -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Estimation: single population -- Estimation: Additional topics -- Hypothesis testing -- Hypothesis testing II -- Simple regression -- Multiple regression -- Additional topics in regression analysis -- Nonparametric statistics -- Goodness-of-fit tests and contingency tables -- Analysis of variance -- Introduction to quality -- Time-series analysis and forecasting -- Additional topics in sampling -- Statistical decision theory.