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  2. Statistics - Wikipedia

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    A typical "Business Statistics" course is intended for business majors, and covers [71] descriptive statistics (collection, description, analysis, and summary of data), probability (typically the binomial and normal distributions), test of hypotheses and confidence intervals, linear regression, and correlation; (follow-on) courses may include ...

  3. List of fields of application of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Biostatistics is a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis, and includes medical statistics. Business analytics is a rapidly developing business process that applies statistical methods to data sets (often very large) to develop new insights and understanding of business performance ...

  4. List of important publications in statistics - Wikipedia

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    Studies the influence of median and skewness in regression analysis. Inspired the field of robust regression, proposed the Laplace distribution and was the first to provide alternatives to Carl Friedrich Gauss's work on statistics. Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

  5. Business studies - Wikipedia

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    Business studies, often simply called business, is a field of study that deals with the principles of business, management, and economics. [1] It combines elements of accountancy , finance , marketing , organizational studies , human resource management , and operations.

  6. Why Bank Investors Need to Know Their Labor Statistics - AOL

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    The labor market is an important factor for the market as a whole as we continue to try to recover from the financial crisis. But there is an added importance for the banking industry that many ...

  7. Business and management research - Wikipedia

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    Business and management research is a systematic inquiry that helps to solve business problems and contributes to management knowledge. It Is an applied research . Four factors (Easterby-Smith, 2008) combine to make business and management a distinctive focus for research :

  8. Outline of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistics is a field of inquiry that studies the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines , from the physical and social sciences to the humanities ; it is also used and misused for making informed decisions in all areas of business and government .

  9. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    In the early 19th century, collection intensified, and the meaning of "statistics" broadened to include the discipline concerned with the collection, summary, and analysis of data. Today, data is collected and statistics are computed and widely distributed in government, business, most of the sciences and sports, and even for many pastimes.