TY - BOOK AU - McClave, James T. TI - Statistics for business and economics SN - 9780131246980 U1 - 519.5 McC PY - 2005/// PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, KW - Commercial statistics KW - Economics Statistical methods N1 - Various multi-media instructional aids are available to supplement the text; Statistics, data, and statistical thinking Methods for describing sets of data Probability Discrete random variables Continuous random variables Sampling distributions Inferences based on a single sample: estimation with confidence intervals Inferences based on a single sample:tests of hypothesis Inferences based on two samples: confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses Design of experiments and analysis of variance Categorical data analysis Simple linear regression Multiple regression and model building Methods for quality improvement Time series: Descriptive analyses, models, and forecasting Nonparametric statistics N2 - 'Statistics for Business and Economics' prepares business students to think critically about reported data and to use appropriate statistical methods to make accurate and reasoned decisions. ER -