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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Business statistics in practice</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bowerman, Bruce L.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>O'Connell, Richard T.</namePart>
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    <publisher> McGraw-Hill/Irwin</publisher>
    <dateIssued> ©2003</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xx, 864 p. :  ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. </extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Introduction to business statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Statistical inferences based on two samples -- Experimental design and analysis of variance -- Simple linear regression analysis -- Multiple regression and model building -- Time series forecasting -- Process improvement using control charts -- Nonparametric menthods -- Chi- square tests -- Decision theory.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Bruce L. Bowerman.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Commercial statistics</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HF1017.B654</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0072470267 9780072470260 </identifier>
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