TY - BOOK AU - Lind, Douglas A. AU - Marchal, William G. AU - Mason, Robert D. TI - Statistical techniques in business & economics T2 - McGraw-Hill/Irwin series in operations and decision sciences SN - 0071123180 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Economics KW - Commercial statistics N1 - Includes index; What is statistics?; Describing data : frequency distributions and graphic presentation; Describing data : measures of central tendency; Other descriptive measures; A survey of probability concepts; Discrete probability distributions; The normal probability distribution; Sampling methods and the central limit theorem; Estimation and confidence intervals; One-sample tests of hypothesis; Two-sample tests of hypothesis; Analysis of variance; Linear regression and correlation; Multiple regression and correlation analysis; Nonparametric methods : chi-square applications; Nonparametric methods : analysis of ranked data; Statistical quality control; Index numbers; Time series and forecasting; An introduction to decision theory ER -