,Bas i c S ta t ~ st ~ c s for
Business & Economics
Fifth Edition
Douglas A. Lind
Coastal Carolina University and The University of Toledo
William C. Marchal
The University of Toledo
SamuelA. Wathen
Coastal Carolina University
Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco st. Louis
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Business Statistics Doane, LearningStats CD-ROM, Sahai and Khurshid, Pocket
First Edition Dictionary of Statistics, First Edition
Aczel and Sounderpandian, Gitlow, Oppenheim, Oppenheim, and Siegel, Practical Business
Complete Business Statistics, Sixth Levine, Quality Management: Tools Statistics, Fifth Edition
Edition and Methods Techniques, Third Wilson, Keating, and John Galt
ALEKS Corp., ALEKS for Business Edition Solutions, Inc., Business
Statistics Lind, Marchal, and Wathen, Basic Forecasting, Fourth Edition
Alwan, Statistical Process Analysis, Statistics for Business and Zagorsky, Business Information,
First Edition Economics, Fifth Edition First Edition
Bowerman and O'Connell, Business Lind, Marchal, and Wathen,
Statistics in Practice, Third Edition Statistical Techniques in Business
Bowerman and O'Connell, Essentials and Economics, Twelfth Edition Quantitative Methods and
of Business Statistics, Second Merchant, Goffinet, and Koehler, Management Science
Edition Basic Statistics Using Excel for
Office XP, Fourth Edition 'Bodily, Carraway, Frey, and Pfeifer,
'Bryant and Smith, Practical Data
Quantitative Business Analysis:
Analysis: Case Studies in Business Merchant, Goffinet, and Koehler,
Text and Cases, First Edition
Statistics, Volumes I and II Second Basic Statistics Using Excel for
Edition; Volume III, First Edition Office 2000, Third Edition Hillier and Hillier, Introduction to
Management Science: A Modeling
Cooper and Schindler, Business Kutner, Nachtsheim, Neter, and Li,
and Case Studies Approach with
Research Methods, Ninth Edition Applied Linear Statistical Models,
Spreadsheets, Second Edition
Delurgio, Forecasting Principles Fifth Edition
'Available only on Primis at
and Applications, First Edition Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Neter,
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Doane, Mathieson, and Tracy, Visual Applied Linear Regression Models,
Statistics, Second Edition, 2.0 Fourth Edition
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Business & Economics
Fifth Edition
Douglas A. Lind
Coastal Carolina University and The University of Toledo
William C. Marchal
The University of Toledo
SamuelA. Wathen
Coastal Carolina University
Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco st. Louis
Bangkok Bogota Caracas Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City
Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto
, The McGraw'HiII Companies ,1"1;11
BASIC STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
International Edition 2006
Exclusive rights by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia), for manufacture and export. This book cannot
be re-exported from the country to which it is sold by McGraw-Hill. The International Edition is
not available in North America.
Published by McGraw-HilI/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-HilI Companies, Inc. 1221
Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2006, 2003, 2000,1997,1994 by The
McGraw-HilI Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
or distributed in any fonn or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the
prior written consent of The McGraw-HilI Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any
network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning.
Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers
outside the United States.
10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03'
20 09 08 07 06 05
CTF ANL
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004057810
When ordering this title, use ISBN 007-124461-1
Printed in Singapore
www.mhhe.com
, The McGraw-Hili/Irwin Titles
Business Statistics Doane, LearningStats CD-ROM, Sahai and Khurshid, Pocket
First Edition Dictionary of Statistics, First Edition
Aczel and Sounderpandian, Gitlow, Oppenheim, Oppenheim, and Siegel, Practical Business
Complete Business Statistics, Sixth Levine, Quality Management: Tools Statistics, Fifth Edition
Edition and Methods Techniques, Third Wilson, Keating, and John Galt
ALEKS Corp., ALEKS for Business Edition Solutions, Inc., Business
Statistics Lind, Marchal, and Wathen, Basic Forecasting, Fourth Edition
Alwan, Statistical Process Analysis, Statistics for Business and Zagorsky, Business Information,
First Edition Economics, Fifth Edition First Edition
Bowerman and O'Connell, Business Lind, Marchal, and Wathen,
Statistics in Practice, Third Edition Statistical Techniques in Business
Bowerman and O'Connell, Essentials and Economics, Twelfth Edition Quantitative Methods and
of Business Statistics, Second Merchant, Goffinet, and Koehler, Management Science
Edition Basic Statistics Using Excel for
Office XP, Fourth Edition 'Bodily, Carraway, Frey, and Pfeifer,
'Bryant and Smith, Practical Data
Quantitative Business Analysis:
Analysis: Case Studies in Business Merchant, Goffinet, and Koehler,
Text and Cases, First Edition
Statistics, Volumes I and II Second Basic Statistics Using Excel for
Edition; Volume III, First Edition Office 2000, Third Edition Hillier and Hillier, Introduction to
Management Science: A Modeling
Cooper and Schindler, Business Kutner, Nachtsheim, Neter, and Li,
and Case Studies Approach with
Research Methods, Ninth Edition Applied Linear Statistical Models,
Spreadsheets, Second Edition
Delurgio, Forecasting Principles Fifth Edition
'Available only on Primis at
and Applications, First Edition Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Neter,
www.mhhe.com/primis
Doane, Mathieson, and Tracy, Visual Applied Linear Regression Models,
Statistics, Second Edition, 2.0 Fourth Edition
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