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

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• M&Ms

  • numerical data example, 55–56

  • sampling variation example, 306–312

• Magazines, advertising in, 678–682

• Mammograms, probabilities of errors, 191–193

• Manufacturing, customized, 557

• Margin of error (ME), 376–378

• Marginal costs, house prices and, 597–598, 606

• Marginal distributions, defined, 81–83

• Marginal probabilities

  • defined, 181–181

  • multiplication rule and, 184–185

• Marginal slopes, 637–638

• Marginality, principle of, 712

• Market segmentation, 688–691

• Mars Climate Orbiter, 13

• Math concepts

  • Addition Rule, 242–243

  • approximating sampling distribution, 383

  • Benford’s law, 477

  • binomial counting, 264–265

  • confidence intervals, combining, 384

  • covariance, 243

  • degrees of freedom, 383–384

  • Durbin-Watson statistic, 621–622

  • exponential smoothing,