Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, 3rd Edition

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• Backward stepwise regression, 820

• Balanced experiments

  • auto repair pricing, 807–813

  • defined, 737

• Bar charts

  • histograms vs., 57–58

  • main discussion, 28–31

  • stacked, 84–85

• Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet, 2

• Base-10 logs, 149. See also Logarithm transformations

• Bayes’ Rule, 193, 196

• Bell-shaped distributions, 65–66. See also Normal model and random variables

• Benford’s law, 477

• Bernanke, Ben, 40

• Bernoulli trials and random variables, 252–253

• Best practices

  • ANOVA, 755

  • association

    • between categorical variables, 97

    • between numerical variables, 127

    • between random variables, 241

  • categorical data, 39

  • chi-squared, 471

  • comparisons, 440–441

  • confidence intervals, 380

  • counts, 261–262

  • curved patterns, 545–546

  • data and data tables, 20

  • linear patterns, ...