Business Statistics

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Excel Books India, 2009 - Statistics, Business - 773 pages
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Statistics as a Scientific Method
7
Functions Importance Limitations and Distrust of Statistics
11
Statistical Investigation
19
Census and Sample Investigation
23
Collection Editing and Analytical Tools of Data
37
Classification and Tabulation of Data
49
Diagrammatic Presentation
71
Probability
461
Merits and Limitations of Coefficient
471
Probability Distribution of a Random Variable and Decision Analysis
521
Value Index
545
Theoretical Probability Distributions
555
Calculation of Inflation
567
Stock Market Index
576
Sampling Distributions
601

Graphic Presentation
89
Measures of Central Tendency
109
Measures of Dispersion
193
Classification and Tabulation
226
Moments Skewness and Kurtosis
241
Diagrammatic Presentation
260
Correlation
265
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268
Correlation in a Bivariate
277
Regression Analysis
297
Index Numbers
329
Analysis of Time Series
387
Theory of Attributes
435
Seasonal Variations
612
Statistical Inference
619
Consistency of Data
631
Analysis of Variance
683
Multiple Linear Regression
695
Statistical Quality Control
709
Nonparametric Tests of Hypothesis
727
Wilcoxon MatchedPairs Signed
733
Appendix
741
Generalisation to the Case of m Variables
748
Answers
753
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