TY - BOOK AU - Bowerman,Bruce L. AU - O'Connell,Richard T. AU - Orris,J.B. TI - Essentials of business statistics SN - 0072827823 U1 - 519.5 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Commercial statistics N1 - 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 ER -