TY - BOOK AU - Bowers, David TI - Statistics for economics and business SN - 0333534352 U1 - 519.5 BOW PY - 1991/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - Economics-statistical methods KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Commercial statistics KW - Business mathematics KW - Economics KW - Statistics KW - Probability KW - Regression analysis and model KW - Statistical tables N1 - Includes bibliography and index; Preface - Acknowledgements - PART 1 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS - Introduction - Data Presentation: Qualitative Data - Data Presentation: Quantitative 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 - Bibliography - Index N2 - A complete course in statistics for students of economics and business, this work includes computer applications relevant to the subject, using standard software packages such as SPSS and Minitab. These are included to complement and illustrate the development of the theoretical material ER -