TY - BOOK AU - Bowerman, Bruce L. AU - O'Connell, Richard T. TI - Business statistics in practice. SN - 0072470267 9780072470260 AV - HF1017.B654 PY - 2003/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin, KW - Commercial statistics. KW - Statistics. N1 - Includes index; Contents: Introduction to business statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Statistical inferences based on two samples -- Experimental design and analysis of variance -- Simple linear regression analysis -- Multiple regression and model building -- Time series forecasting -- Process improvement using control charts -- Nonparametric menthods -- Chi- square tests -- Decision theory ER -