Practice of Business Statistics

Examining DistributionsExamining RelationshipsProducing DataPART II: PROBABILITY AND INFERENCEProbability and Sampling DistributionsProbability TheoryIntroduction to InferenceInference for DistributionsInference for ProportionsPART III: TOPICS IN INFERENCEInference for Two-Way TablesInference for RegressionMultiple RegressionStatistics for Quality: Control and CapabilityTime Series ForecastingOne-Way Analysis of VariancePART IV: OPTIONAL COMPNION CHAPTERSTwo-Way Analysis of VarianceNonparametric TestsLogistic Regression

DAVID S. MOORE Purdue University, USA, Original author of unique stats approach and <EM>The Practice</EM> Franchise of Stat books (published by WH Freeman).GEORGE P. McCABE Purdue University, USA, Head of the Statistical Consulting Service. Elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1998 Chair of its section on Statistical Consulting.WILLIAM M. DUCKWORTH II Iowa State University, USA, Specializes in Statistics Education and Design of Experiments. He has many professional affiliations (ie. ASA and the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). STANLEY L. SCLOVE U of I at Chicago, USA, Currently professor of Information and Decision Science, College of Business Administration. Sclove has consulted for numerous organizations and corporations including Campbells Soup, Ameritech Communications, and Mt Sinai Hospital, NY. JAY DEVORE Cal Poly âEUR" SLO, USA, where he is currently Department Chair and Professor. This department has an international reputation for activities in Statistics education. Jay co-authors another Statistics text (Devore/Peck, <EM>Statistics</EM> by West Publishers).LAYTH ALWAN University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He has a background in operations management and statistical quality control.