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

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• Paired comparisons, 436–440

• Parallel fits, 714–715

• Parameters

  • defined, 205

  • ranges for, 363–368

• Pareto charts, defined, 29

• Partial F-tests, 812

• Partial slopes, 637–638

• Parts and labor, pricing, 807–813

• Path diagrams, 638–639, 654–655

• Patterns, defined, 3–4

• Percentages

  • in contingency tables, 82–83

  • in frequency tables, 28

  • in histograms, 57

  • logarithms and, 150, 549

• Percentiles

  • main discussion, 52–53

  • in normal distributions, 280–282

• Pharmaceutical advertising, 251. See also Counts

• Pharmacies, profits of, 682–687

• Phones. See Smartphones

• Pie charts, 31–33

• Pilot samples, 377

• Pitfalls

  • ANOVA, 755

  • association

    • between categorical variables, 97

    • between numerical variables, 127

    • between random variables, 242

  • categorical data, 40

  • chi-squared, 472 ...