Business statistics : a decision-making approach / David F. Groebner, Boise State University, Professor Emeritus of Production Management, Patrick W. Shannon, Boise State University, Dean of the College of Business and Economics, Phillip C. Fry, Boise State University, Professor, ITSCM Department Chair.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 869-866) and index.

The where, why, and how of data collection -- Graphs, charts, and tables--describing your data -- Describing data using numerical measures -- Introduction to probability -- Discrete probability distributions -- Introduction to continuous probability distributions -- Introduction to sampling distributions -- Estimating single population parameters -- Introduction to hypothesis testing -- Estimation and hypothesis testing for two population parameters -- Hypothesis tests and estimation for population variances -- Analysis of variance -- Goodness-of-fit tests and contingency analysis -- Introduction to linear regression and correlation analysis -- Multiple regression analysis and model building -- Analyzing and forecasting time-series data -- Introduction to nonparametric statistics -- Introduction to quality and statistical process control -- Appendix tables.