TY - BOOK AU - Lind,Douglas A. AU - Mason,Robert Deward AU - Marchal,William G. TI - Basic statistics for business and economics SN - 0071165169 [hardbound] PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - Irwin/McGraw-Hill KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Economics KW - Industrial management KW - Commercial statistics N1 - Includes appendices and indexes; Contents: 1 What is statistics? 2 Describing data: frequency distributions and graphic presentation -- 3 Describing data: measures of location and dispersion -- 4 A survey of probability concepts -- 5 Discrete probability distributions -- 6 The normal probability distribution -- 7 Sampling methods and sampling distributions -- 8 Tests of hypothesis: large samples -- 9 Tests of hypothesis: small samples -- 10 Analysis of variance -- 11 Linear regression and correlation -- 12 Multiple regression and correlation analysis -- 13 Nonparametric methods: chi-square applications -- 14 Statistical quality control ER -