Robert Stine - Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis

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The student edition of this title has been catalogued at the Library of Congress as follows:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stine, Robert A., author. | Foster, Dean P., author.

Title: Statistics for business : decision making and analysis / ROBERT STINE, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, DEAN FOSTER, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Description: Third Edition. | Boston : Pearson, 2016. | Revised edition of the authors Statistics for business, 2013. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016016748| ISBN 9780134497167 (hardcover) | ISBN 0134497163 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Commercial statistics. | Statistics.

Classification: LCC HF1017.S74 2016 | DDC 519.502/465--dc23

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