TY - BOOK AU - Ekeblad,Frederick A. TI - The statistical method in business : : applications of probability and inference to business and other problems U1 - 311 PY - 1962/// CY - New York PB - Wiley KW - Statistics KW - Probabilities N1 - includes appendix and index; 1. The nature of the statistical method 2. Some fundamental concepts 3. Sources of knowledge 4. The use of numbers 5. Elements of probability calculations 6. Some useful analytical tools 7. Making inferences about the unknown, or the problem of intelligent guessing 8. A theory and method of making inferences about the mean of a universe from information supplied by a random sample 9. Inference ratios as ingredients in planing an decision making 10. Pooling information 11. Inferences about later samples form information about prior samples 12. Inferences from information expressed as a continuous variable 13. Reducing uncertainty by association: the problem and the model for analysis 14. Reducing uncertainty by association: application of the model to practical problems 15. Reducing uncertainty by association: multiple correlation analysis 16. The problem of changes over time 17. The anatomy of an economic time series 18. Forecasting an economic time series 19. Index numbers: the comparison of group characteristics ER -