Statistical Methods For Business And Economics, Revised Edition (the Irwin Series In Quantitative Analysis For Business) [DJVU]

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• Toc: A note to the instructor vii......Page p0007.djvuAcknowledgments x......Page p0010.djvuContents xiii......Page p0013.djvu1.1 Examples of statistical problems 1......Page p0019.djvu1.2 Sources of data 6......Page p0024.djvu1.3 Statistical data terminology 7......Page p0025.djvu1.4 The acquisition of data: Surveys and experiments 10......Page p0028.djvu1.5 Obtaining data 12......Page p0030.djvu1.6 Constructing questionnaires and schedules 14......Page p0032.djvu1.7 Variables and scales of measurement 16......Page p0034.djvu1.8 Text orientation 17......Page p0035.djvu1.9 Summary 18......Page p0036.djvu2.1 Introduction 23......Page p0041.djvu2.2 Frequency distributions 24......Page p0042.djvu2.3 Graphical methods of data presentation 27......Page p0045.djvu2.4 Representative measures 31......Page p0049.djvu2.5 Measures of variability 36......Page p0054.djvu2.6 Other numerical measures 40......Page p0058.djvu2.7 Computation of numerical measures for grouped data 44......Page p0062.djvu2.8 Use of the standard deviation: The Chebychef theorem 46......Page p0064.djvu2.9 Summary 48......Page p0066.djvu3.1 Introduction 54......Page p0072.djvu3.2 The sample and event spaces 55......Page p0073.djvu3.3 Computing probabilities from the sample space 63......Page p0081.djvu3.4 Permutations, combinations, and other counting rules 71......Page p0089.djvu3.5 Summary 76......Page p0094.djvu4.2 Compounding events: Unions and intersections 81......Page p0099.djvu4.3 Conditional probability 85......Page p0103.djvu4.4 Event relationships 90......Page p0108.djvu4.5 Additive and multiplicative probability laws 93......Page p0111.djvu4.6 Computing probabilities: Probability laws and probability trees 96......Page p0114.djvu4.7 Bayes theorem 99......Page p0117.djvu4.9 Summary 103......Page p0121.djvu5.2 Random variables 110......Page p0128.djvu5.3 Discrete random variables and their distributions 118......Page p0136.djvu5.4 The mean and variance of a discrete random variable 123......Page p0141.djvu5.5 Continuous random variables and their distributions 126......Page p0144.djvu5.6 The mean and variance of a continuous random variable 131......Page p0149.djvu5.7 Mathematical expectation 133......Page p0151.djvu5.8 Bivariate random variables 137......Page p0155.djvu5.9 Summary 142......Page p0160.djvu6.1 Introduction 147......Page p0165.djvu6.2 The discrete uniform distribution 148......Page p0166.djvu6.3 The binomial distribution 151......Page p0169.djvu6.4 The hypergeometric distribution 160......Page p0178.djvu6.5 The Poisson distribution 163......Page p0181.djvu6.6 Summary 169......Page p0187.djvu7.2 The uniform (cont