Elementary business statistics : the modern approach /
John E. Freund, Frank Jefferson Williams and Benjamin M. Perles
- Sixth edition
- [New Jersey] : Prentice Hall, 1993
- xviii, 953 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliography and index.
Introduction -- Summarizing data: frequency distribution -- Summarizing data: statistical descriptions -- Possibilities, probabilities, and expectations -- Some rules of probability -- Decision analysis -- Probability distribution -- Bayes's theorem and the revision of probabilities -- The normal distribution -- Sampling and sampling distribution -- Decision making: inferences about means -- Decision making: inferences about standard deviations -- Decision making: inferences about proportions -- Decision making: analysis of variance -- Decision making: nonparametric test -- Decision making: linear regression -- Decision making: correlation -- Quality control -- Index numbers -- Time-series analysis -- Planning business research