Basic statistics for business and economics /
Douglas A. Lind, William G. Marchal, and Samuel A. Wathen
- Eighth edition
- New York : McGraw Hill Education, c2013
- xxvii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes index.
What is statistics? -- Describing data : frequency tables, frequency distributions, and graphic presentation -- Describing data : numerical measures -- Describing data : displaying and exploring data -- A survey of probability concepts -- Discrete probability distributions -- Sampling methods and the central limit theorem -- Estimation and confidence intervals -- One-sample test of hypothesis -- Two-sample tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Correlation and linear regression -- Multiple regression analysis -- Nonparametric methods : goodness-ot-fit tests
"As a student of business or economics, you will need basic knowledge and skills to organize, analyze, and transform data and to present the information."