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Introductory Business Statistics 2eReferences

1.1 Definitions of Statistics, Probability, and Key Terms

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1.2 Data, Sampling, and Variation in Data and Sampling

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1.3 Levels of Measurement

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1.4 Experimental Design and Ethics

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