TY - BOOK AU - Aczel,Amir D. AU - Sounderpandian,Jayavel TI - Business statistics / T2 - The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series Operations and decision sciences SN - 0077108604 U1 - 519.5 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin, KW - Commercial statistics KW - Statistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Working with Templates -- 1. Introduction and Descriptive Statistics -- 2. Probability -- 3. Random Variables -- 4. The Normal Distribution -- 5. Sampling and Sampling Distributions -- 6. Confidence Intervals -- 7. Hypothesis Testing -- 8. The Comparison of Two Populations -- 9. Analysis of Variance -- 10. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation N2 - Business Statistics, Abridged Fifth Edition offers an introduction to the key concepts essential to an introductory business statistics course. Based on market research, this abridgement has removed six chapters considered to be superfluous leaving a text that more accurately reflects market needs. This abridged edition continues to provide the student with a clear understanding of the core statistical concepts and rich problems to stimulate learning ER -