APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS
APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS
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ISBN: 9781259957598
Author: DOANE
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Statistics is the study of data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Statistical bias is a characteristic of a statistical technique or its findings in which the expected value deviates from the actual root quantitative p…
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Chapter 1.5, Problem 13SE

An ad for a cell phone service claims that its percent of “dropped calls” was significantly lower than that of its main competitor. In the fine print, the percents were given as 1.2 percent versus 1.4 percent. Is this reduction likely to be important to customers (as opposed to being significant)?

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APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS

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