TY - BOOK AU - Bowerman, Bruce L. TI - Business statistics in practice / SN - 9780071220651 U1 - 510.502465 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Commercial statistics KW - Statistics KW - Probabilities KW - Business mathematics N1 - Includes index; 1. An Introduction to Business Statistics2. Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods4. Probability5. Discrete Random Variables6. Continuous Random Variables7. Sampling Distributions8. Confidence Intervals9. Hypothesis Testing10. Statistical Inferences Based on Two Samples11. Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance12. Chi-Square Tests13. Simple Linear Regression Analysis14. Multiple Regression15. Model Building and Model Diagnostics16. Time Series Forecasting17. Process Improvement Using Control Charts18. Nonparametric Methods19. Decision TheoryAppendix A: Statistical TablesAppendix B: Counting RulesAppendix C: Hypergeometric DistributionAppendix D: Properties of the Mean and the Variance of a Random Variable, and the CovarianceAppendix E: Derivations of the Mean and Variance of x(bar) and p(hat; 500-599; 510 N2 - Provides a modern and practical framework for teaching the first course in business statistics, featuring case study and example-driven discussions of various basic business statistics topics ER -