Book Description
This market leading text offers a solid, comprehensive, applications-oriented approach. Written by authors who are well-known and highly regarded in the field, the text provides sound methodological development. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an application setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solutions to problems. Statistics for Business and Economics, 8e offers proven accuracy that has led instructors to adopted it simply for its superior examples and exercises alone.

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This market leading text offers a solid, comprehensive, applications-oriented approach. Written by authors who are well-known and highly regarded in the field, the text provides sound methodological development. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an application setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solutions to problems. The text offers proven accuracy that has led instructors to adopted it simply for its superior examples and exercises alone.

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Intended for undergraduates studying business administration or economics, this textbook serves as a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics. Topics include data, descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, variance, regression, forecasting, nonparametric methods, and decision analysis. The text emphasizes applications--especially applications of data analysis--and assumes mathematical knowledge only at the level of algebra. The authors teach at the University of Cincinnati and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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