Business statistics /
Barron's business statistics
Douglas Downing, Jeffrey Clark.
- 5th ed.
- Hauppauge, NY : Barron's Educational Series, c2010.
- xvi, 540 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Business review books .
Includes index.
Why statistics? -- Descriptive statistics -- Introduction to probability and hypothesis testing -- Calculating probabilities -- Conditional probability -- Random variables -- The binomial distribution -- The normal distribution and related distributions -- Distributions with two random variables and correlation -- Statistical estimation -- Confidence intervals -- Polls and sampling -- Hypothesis testing -- The chi-square test -- Analysis of variance -- Simple regression -- Multiple regression -- Nonparametric methods -- Economic data and business forecasting -- Decision theory.