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    Business statistics / Norean R. Sharpe, Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David Wright.

    • Title:Business statistics / Norean R. Sharpe, Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David Wright.
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    • Author/Creator:Sharpe, Norean R. author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:De Veaux, Richard D., author.
      Velleman, Paul F., 1949- author.
      Wright, David, author.
    • Published/Created:Boston : Pearson, [2014].
      ©2014.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Commercial statistics.
      Commercial statistics--Textbooks.
      Commercial statistics--Problems, exercises, etc.
    • Edition:Fourth custom edition for the University of British Columbia.
    • Description:xxxv, 829, 82, 2, 23, 228 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, tables ; 29 cm
    • Notes:"Taken from: Business Statistics, Second Canadian Edition by Norean R. Sharpe, Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, and David Wright"
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781269617284
      1269617281
    • Contents:Pt. 1. Exploring and collecting data. An introduction to statistics
      Data
      Surveys and sampling
      Displaying and describing categorical data
      Displaying and describing quantitative data
      Randomness and probability
      Scatterplots, association, and correlation
      Introduction to linear regression. Pt. 2. Understanding data and distributions. Random variables and probability distributions
      Sampling distributions
      Confidence intervals for proportions
      Testing hypotheses about proportions
      Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for means
      Comparing two means
      Paired samples and blocks
      Inference for counts : chi-square tests
      Nonparametric methods. Pt. 3. Exploring relationships among variables. Inference for regression
      Understanding residuals
      Multiple regression
      Building multiple regression models. Pt. 4. Building models for decision making. Time series analysis
      Decision making and risk
      Design of experiments and analysis of variance, ANOVA
      Quality control
      Introduction to data mining.
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