Includes bibliographical references (p. 913-915) and index.

Contents: The Kaleidoscopic world of applied statistics -- Exploring the features of a single variable -- Classical methods of summarizing a single variable -- Introduction to probability -- The normal distribution -- A mix of tools for business and economic data -- Sampling distributions, single sample confidence intervals and hypothesis tests -- Exploring relationships between pairs of variables -- Classical methods for summarizing relationships between pairs of variables -- The analysis of categorical (qualitative) variables and tests of goodness of fit and independence -- Simple regression analysis and the analysis of variance -- Multiple regression analysis -- Special probability distributions -- Some statistical aspects of quality control -- Experimental designs and the analysis of variance -- Classical time series analysis and forecasting -- Index numbers -- Nonparametric methods -- Decision theory -- Tables --

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