TY - BOOK AU - Whitehead, Paul AU - Whitehead, Geoffrey TI - Statistics for business : an introduction SN - 9780273038108 U1 - 650.072 PY - 1992/// CY - Pitman, PB - London : KW - Commercial statistics KW - Statistics N1 - Includes index; What is statistics -- The collection of routine data -- Methods of inquiry: censuses and sampling -- Classification and tabulation of data -- Approximations and errors -- The pictorial representation of data 1: charts and diagrams -- The pictorial representation of data, 2: graphs -- Index numbers -- Published statistics -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion and skewness -- Time series analysis -- Probability -- Probability distributions -- Quality control -- Correlation and regression -- Sampling and significance testing -- Computer based statistical packages ER -