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020 _a9780333560297
020 _a0333560299
082 _a650.072
_bBOW
100 _aBowers, David ;
245 _aStatistics for economics and business
260 _aBasingstoke ; Hampshire :
_bELBS with Macmillan,
_c1991.
300 _avii, 276 p. :
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _a Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Introduction; Data Presentation: Qualitative Data; Data Presentation: Qualitative Data; Measures of Location; Measures of Dispersion. PART 2 PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: An introduction to Probability; Discrete Probability Distributions; Continuous Probability Distributions. PART 3 STATISTICAL INFERENCE: Introduction to Statistical Inference; Sampling Distribution of Sample Statistics; Estimation; Hypothesis Testing; Statistical Inference with Two Populations. PART 4 REGRESSION ANALYSIS: The Simple Linear Regression Model; Multiple Regression; Statistical Tables; Index.
520 _aThis book provides an introduction to the theory and application of statistics in economics and business. The text is comprehensively illustrated with examples from economics, business and the social sciences and will be suitable for use on courses throughout the world.
650 _aMathematical statistics.
650 _aEconomics -- Statistics.
650 _aEconomics.
942 _cREF
999 _c21090
_d21090