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

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• Salaries

  • of executives, 64, 148–152

  • gender and, 703. See also Categorical explanatory variables

• Sales forces, comparing, 438–440

• Sample size condition. See also Prerequisites

  • defined, 337

  • for the mean, 370, 406

  • for the proportion, 366, 403

• Sample space, defined, 161

• Sample statistics, defined, 320

• Sampling and surveys. See also Randomization

  • alternative methods, 323–326

  • best practices, 328

  • definitions, 315

  • examples

    • clothing store, 322–323

    • inflation, 324

  • Literary Digest, 317

  • exercises, 330–333

  • ordinal variables and, 13–14

  • parameter estimation, 320

  • pilot samples, 377

  • pitfalls, 329

  • questions to ask, 326–328

  • size, 317. See also Sample size condition

  • software hints, 329

  • SRS. See Simple random samples

  • surprising properties of, 315–319

  • variation. ...