TY - BOOK AU - Bowerman, Bruce L. AU - O'Connell, Richard T. TI - Business statistics in practice. SN - 9780073521497 AV - HF1017.B65 U1 - 519.5024'65 dc23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin, KW - Commercial statistics. KW - Statistics. N1 - Includes index; Contents: Introduction to business statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Continuous random variables -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Comparing two means and two proportions -- Statistical inferences for populations variances -- Experimental design and analysis of variance -- Chi- square tests -- Simple linear regression analysis -- Multiple regression and model building -- Time series forecasting and index numbers -- Process improvement using control charts -- Nonparametric methods -- Decision theory ER -