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    <title>Business statistics in practice</title>
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    <namePart>Bowerman, Bruce L.</namePart>
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    <namePart>O'Connell, Richard T.</namePart>
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    <publisher> McGraw-Hill/Irwin</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2014</dateIssued>
    <edition>7th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxiii, 864 p. :  ill. (col.) ;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Introduction to business statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Continuous random variables --  Sampling and sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Comparing two means and two proportions -- Statistical inferences for populations variances -- Experimental design and analysis of variance -- Chi- square tests -- Simple linear regression analysis -- Multiple regression and model building -- Time series forecasting and index numbers  -- Process improvement using control charts -- Nonparametric methods --  Decision theory.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Bruce L. Bowerman, Richard T. O'Connell, Emily S. Murphree</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Commercial statistics</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780073521497</identifier>
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