Complete Business Statistics

Introduction and descriptive statistics; probability; random variables; the normal distribution; sampling and sampling distributions; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; the comparisons of two populations; analysis of variance; simple linear regression and correlation; multiple regression; time series; forecasting, and index numbers; quality control and improvement; nonparametric methods and Chi-Square; Bayesian statistics and decision analysis; multivariate analysis; sampling methods. Appendices: references; answers to most odd-numbered problems; statistical tables; the federal reserve data set.