TY - BOOK AU - Bowers, David ; TI - Statistics for economics and business SN - 9780333560297 U1 - 650.072 PY - 1991/// CY - Basingstoke ; Hampshire PB - ELBS with Macmillan, KW - Mathematical statistics. KW - Economics -- Statistics. KW - Economics N1 - Includes index; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Introduction; Data Presentation: Qualitative Data; Data Presentation: Qualitative Data; Measures of Location; Measures of Dispersion. PART 2 PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: An introduction to Probability; Discrete Probability Distributions; Continuous Probability Distributions. PART 3 STATISTICAL INFERENCE: Introduction to Statistical Inference; Sampling Distribution of Sample Statistics; Estimation; Hypothesis Testing; Statistical Inference with Two Populations. PART 4 REGRESSION ANALYSIS: The Simple Linear Regression Model; Multiple Regression; Statistical Tables; Index N2 - This book provides an introduction to the theory and application of statistics in economics and business. The text is comprehensively illustrated with examples from economics, business and the social sciences and will be suitable for use on courses throughout the world ER -