TY - BOOK AU - Newbold,Paul AU - Carlson,William L. AU - Thorne,Betty TI - Statistics for business and economics SN - 9780131880900 (cased) : AV - HF1017 .N48 2007 U1 - 519.502433 NEW PY - 2007/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson Prentice Hall KW - Commercial statistics KW - Economics KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistics KW - Business mathematics & systems KW - thema N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.Why study statistics? -- 2.Describing data: graphical -- 3.Describing data: numerical -- 4.Probability -- 5.Discrete random variables and probability distributions -- 6.Continuous random variables and probability distributions -- 7.Sampling and sampling distributions -- 8.Estimation: single popullation -- 9.Estimation: additional topics -- 10.Hypothesis testing -- 11.Hypothesis testing II -- 12.Simple regressioin -- 13.Multiple regression -- 14.Additional topics in regression analysis -- 15.Nonparametric statistics -- 16.Goodness-of-fit tests and contingency tables -- 17.Analysis of variance -- 18.Introduction to quality -- 19.Time-series analysis and forecasting -- 20.Additional topics in sampling -- 21.Statistical decision theory ER -