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Bowerman, Bruce L.

Essentials of business statistics / Bruce L. Bowerman, Richard T. O'Connell, J.B. Orris. - xvi, 618 pages : illustrations (some color), map (color) ; 29 cm. + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.) - The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series Operations and decision sciences .

LC copy imperfect: accompanying CD-ROM wanting

Includes bibliographical references (p. [609]-610) and index.

1. An Introduction to Business Statistics --
2. Descriptive Statistics --
3. Probability --
4. Discrete Random Variables --
5. Continuous Random Variables --
6. Sampling Distributions --
7. Confidence Intervals --
8. Hypothesis Testing --
9. Comparing Population Means --
10. Comparing Proportions and Chi-Square Tests --
11. Simple Linear Regression Analysis --
12. Multiple Regression And Model Building --
Appendix A. Statistical Tables --
Appendix B. Counting Rules --
Appendix C. The Hypergeometric Distribution --
Appendix D. Properties of the Mean and the Variance of a Random Variable, and the Covariance --
Appendix E. Derivations of the Mean and Variance of x and p.

ISBN: 0072827823 0071214402 (Int'l. ed.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Commercial statistics.

Dewey Class. No.: 519.5 / B.B.E