Statistics for Business & Economics

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Cover......Page 1 Front Endpaper 1......Page 2 Front Endpaper 2......Page 3 Brief Contents......Page 11 Contents......Page 13 Preface......Page 29 About the Authors......Page 35 Chapter 1: Data and Statistics......Page 37 Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Displays......Page 69 Chapter 3: Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures......Page 135 Chapter 4: Introduction to Probability......Page 205 Chapter 5: Discrete Probability Distributions......Page 251 Chapter 6: Continuous Probability Distributions......Page 301 Chapter 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions......Page 334 Chapter 8: Interval Estimation......Page 378 Chapter 9: Hypothesis Tests......Page 418 Chapter 10: Inference About Means and Proportions with Two Populations......Page 477 Chapter 11: Inferences About Population Variances......Page 518 Chapter 12: Comparing Multiple Proportions, Test of Independence and Goodness of Fit......Page 543 Chapter 13: Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance......Page 581 Chapter 14: Simple Linear Regression......Page 634 Chapter 15: Multiple Regression......Page 718 Chapter 16: Regression Analysis: Model Building......Page 787 Chapter 17: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting......Page 836 Chapter 18: Nonparametric Methods......Page 906 Chapter 19: Statistical Methods for Quality Control......Page 952 Chapter 20: Index Numbers......Page 987 Chapter 21: Decision Analysis......Page 1007 Chapter 22: Sample Survey......Page 1047 Appendix A: References and Bibliography......Page 1086 Appendix : Tables......Page 1088 Appendix C: Summation Notation......Page 1115 Appendix D: Self-Test Solutions and Answers to Even-Numbered Exercises......Page 1117 Appendix E: Microsoft Excel 2010 and Tools for Statistical Analysis......Page 1178 Appendix F: Computing p-Values Using Minitab and Excel......Page 1190 Index......Page 1194 Endpaper 2......Page 1203