Synopsis
This textbook covers the basics of collecting, analyzing, and describing data, forming and testing hypotheses, model building, and forecasting. Specific chapters also address topics like: graphs, charts, and tables; numerical measures; probability and discrete probability distributions; continuous probability distributions; sampling distributions; estimating population values; variance; linear regression and correlation analysis; quality and statistical process control; contingency analysis; nonparametric statistics; and, decision analysis. A companion CD-ROM covers additional topics, and features examples, tutorials, solved problems, data files, additional exercises, and interactive simulations. The authors teach management, economics, computer information systems, and statistics at Boise State University and the University of California, Riverside.
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