Preface -- Statistics, data, and statistical thinking -- Methods for describing sets of data -- Probability -- Random variables and probability distributions -- With confidence intervals -- Hypotheses -- Intervals and tests of hypotheses -- Design of experiments and analysis of variance -- Categorical data analysis -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression and model building -- Multiple regression diagnostics -- Process control.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This twelfth edition of Statistics for Business and Economics is an introductory text emphasizing inference, with extensive coverage of data collection and analysis as needed to evaluate the reported results of statistical studies and make good decisions. As in earlier editions, the text stresses the development of statistical thinking, the assessment of credibility, and the value of the inferences made from data, both by those who consume and those who produce them. It assumes a mathematical background of basic algebra."--Xi (Preface).

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