Monday, January 5, 2009

Basic Statistics for Business and Economics Study Guide or Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History

Basic Statistics for Business and Economics Study Guide

Author: Douglas A Lind

Traditionally,this text has held a prestigious position in the lower-level undergraduate Business Statistics course,due to the book's reputation for easy step-by-step instructions,examples and problems. However,this text also sells into the four-year and even MBA markets depending on the professors teaching style and level of the students,primarily in the one semester course.



Table of Contents:
1. What is Statistics?
2. Describing Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphic Presentation
3. Describing Data: Measures of Location and Measures of Dispersion
4. A Survey of Probability Concepts
5. Discrete Probability Distributions
6. The Normal Probability Distribution
7. Sampling Methods and Sampling Distributions
8. Tests of Hypothesis: Large Samples
9. Tests of Hypothesis: Small Samples
10. Analysis of Variance
11. Linear Regression and Correlation
12. Multiple Regression and Correlation Analysis
13. Nonparametric Methods: Chi-Square Applications
14. Statistical Quality Control

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Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History

Author: Jac C C Heckelman

The chapters of this volume apply the tools of public choice theory to the types of questions which economic historians have traditionally addressed. By adding the insights of public choice economists to the traditional tools used to understand economic actors and institutions, the authors are able to provide fresh insights about many important issues of American history.



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