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

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• Education and income, 179. See also Conditional probabilities

• Effect size, 408

• Effect tests, 812

• Elasticity, 542–545

• Electric heating, gas vs., 96–97

• Email, filtering junk, 193–195, 391. See also Statistical tests

• Empirical Rule

  • main discussion, 65–66

  • normal random variables and, 276–277

  • skewness and, 149

  • VaR and, 145

• Employment and unemployment

  • forecasting, 784–787

  • predicting, 4–7

  • timeplot example, 17

• Energy. See Gas heating

• Enron, 140–145

• Equivalent inferences, 570

• Errors

  • dependent, 611–615

  • false positive/false negative, 191

  • heteroscedastic, 599–601

  • homoscedastic, 599

  • in MRM, 631–632

  • in SRM, 559

  • standard. See Standard errors

• Estimates, defined, 320

• Events

  • defined, 162

  • dependent, 167, 184–187

  • disjoint. See Disjoint events

  • independent. ...