Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics

Lind Marchal Wathen is a perennial market best seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format.

The text presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style and illustrates concepts through the liberal use of business-focused examples that are relevant to the current world of a college student.

Known as a "student's text," Lind's supporting pedagogy includes self reviews, cumulative exercises, and coverage of software applications including Excel, Minitab, and MegaStat for Excel.

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Chapter 1 What Is Statistics?

Chapter 2 Describing Data: Frequency Tables, Frequency Distributions, and Graphic Presentation

Chapter 3 Describing Data: Numerical Measures

Chapter 4 Describing Data: Displaying and Exploring Data

Chapter 5 A Survey of Probability Concepts

Chapter 6 Discrete Probability Distributions

Chapter 7 Continuous Probability Distributions

Chapter 8 Sampling Methods and the Central Limit Theorem

Chapter 9 Estimation and Confidence Intervals

Chapter 10 One-Sample Tests of Hypothesis

Chapter 11 Two-Sample Tests of Hypothesis

Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance

Chapter 13 Correlation and Linear Regression

Chapter 14 Multiple Regression Analysis

Chapter 15 Index Numbers

Chapter 16 Time Series and Forecasting

Chapter 17 Nonparametric Methods: Goodness-of-Fit-Tests

Chapter 18 Nonparametric Methods: Analysis of Ranked Data

Chapter 19 Statistical Quality Control and Quality Management

Chapter 20 An Introduction to Decision Theory (Web)

Appendix A: Data Sets

Appendix B: Tables

Appendix C: Answers to Odd-Numbered Chapter Exercises, Odd-Numbered Review Exercises, and Solutions to Practice Tests

Index