TY - BOOK AU - Newbold,Paul AU - Carlson,William L. AU - Thorne,Betty TI - Statistics for business and economics SN - 013188090X AV - HF1017.N48 U1 - 519.5 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson Prentice Hall KW - Commercial statistics KW - Economics KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistics N1 - 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 ER -