Lind Douglas A., Marchal William G., Wathen Samuel A. Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics

15th ed. — NY: McGraw-Hill, 2012. — 903 p.Lind/Marchal/Wathen is a perennial market best seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style and illustrates concepts through the liberal use of business-focused examples that are relevant to the current world of a college student. Known as a student's text, Lind's supporting pedagogy includes self reviews, cumulative exercises, and coverage of software applications including Excel, Minitab, and MegaStat for Excel. The new 15th edition puts more emphasis on the interpretation of data and results and supports Lind's student-centric, step-by-step approach with McGraw-Hill's industry leading online assessment resource Connect Business Statistics.What Is Statistics?
Describing Data: Frequency Tables, Frequency Distributions, and Graphic Presentation
Describing Data: Numerical Measures
Describing Data: Displaying and Exploring Data
A Survey of Probability Concepts
Discrete Probability Distributions
Continuous Probability Distributions
Sampling Methods and the Central Limit Theorem
Estimation and Confidence Intervals
One-Sample Tests of Hypothesis
Two-Sample Tests of Hypothesis
Analysis of Variance
Correlation and Linear Regression
Multiple Regression Analysis
Index Numbers
Time Series and Forecasting
Nonparametric Methods: Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Nonparametric Methods: Analysis of Ranked Data
Statistical Process Control and Quality Management