TY - BOOK AU - Newbold, Paul AU - Carlson, William L. \ Thorne, Betty M TI - Statistics for business and economics SN - 0130293202 PY - 2002/// CY - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey PB - Prentice Hall N2 - Why study statistics?, 1. -- Describing data, 11. -- Summarizing descriptive relationships, 55. -- Probability, 79. -- Discrete random variables and probability distributions, 129. -- Continuous random variables and probability distributions, 179. -- Sampling and sampling distributions, 217. -- Estimation, 255. -- Hypothesis testing, 305. -- Simple regression, 369. -- Multiple regression, 413. -- Additional topics in regression analysis, 485. -- Nonparametric statistics, 531. -- Goodness-of-fit tests and contingency tables, 557. -- Analysis of variance, 579. -- Introduction to quality, 621. -- Time series analysis and forecasting, 655. -- Additional topics in sampling, 699. -- Statistical decision theory, 739 ER -