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Barron's Business Review Books make excellent supplements to college textbooks--or even serve as fine main texts in adult education courses or business brush-up programs. You'll find key business terms defined, important concepts reviewed, and pertinent examples of business transactions summarized. Topics covered in this title include probability and hypothesis testing, random variables, polls and sampling, multiple linear regression, analyzing business data, decision theory, and more.

Why Statistics?
Descriptive Statistics
Introduction to Probability and Hypothesis Testing
Calculating Probabilities
Conditional Probability
Random Variables
The Binomial, Poisson, and Hypergeometric Distributions
The Normal Distribution and Related Distributions
Distributions with Two Random Variables
Statistical Estimation
Confidence Intervals
Polls and Sampling
Hypothesis Testing
Analysis of Variance
Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
Nonparametric Methods
Business Data
Decision Theory
Appendices
Index
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