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商务与经济统计技术（英文版.第11版） 原书名：Statistical Techniques in Business Economics Brief Contents 1 What Is Statishics? 2 Describing Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphic Presentation 3 Describing Data: Measures of Central Tendency 4 Othcr Descriptive Measures 5 ASurvey.ofProbability Concepts 6 Discrete Probability Distributions 7 The Normal Probability Distribution 8 Sampling Methods and the Central Limit Theorem 9 Estimation and Confidence Intervals 10 One-Sample Tests of Hrpothesis 11 Tests of Hypothesis: Two Samples 12 Analysis of Variance 13 Linear Regression and Correlation 14 Multiple Regression and Correlation Analysis 15 Nonparametric Methods: Chi-Square Applications 16 Nonparameiric Methods: Analysis of Ranked Data 17 Statistical Quality Control 18 IndexNumbers 19 Time Series and Forecasting 20 An Introduction to Decision Theory Appendixes: Tables and Data Sets MegaStat Quick Reference Guide Answers to Odd-Numbered Chapter Exercises Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Exercises Index PrefaceAs the name implies, the objective of Statistical Techniques in Business and Econom-ics is to provide students majoring in economics, finance, marketing, accounting,management, and other fields of business administration, with an introductory survey of the many business applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. While we have focused on business applications, we have also attempted to use examples and problems that are student oriented and that do not require previous business courses.When Bob Mason wrote the first edition of this text in 1967, locating relevant datawas difficult. That has changed! Today, locating data is not a problem. The number ofitems you purchase at the grocery store is automatically recorded at the checkoutstand. Phone companies keep track of the length of a call, the time it was made, andthe number of the person called. Medical devices can automatically monitor andrecord our heart rate, blood pressure, and temperatur