This is a hallmark textbook that revolutionized the teaching and learning of business statistics of students who are not majoring in statistics. The coverage for Microsoft Excel is beautifully streamlined and integrated with the text. This highly motivating book is an international bestseller. The book is rich with applications from accounting, finance, marketing, management and economics with emphasis on using statistical software as a tool, and in a spreadsheet environment. Free student CD-Rom with the book provides greater and visual explorations on various topics.

Table of Contents

Preface.
1. Introduction and Data Collection. Excel Primer.
2. Presenting Data in Tables and Charts.
3. Numerical Descriptive Measures.
4. Basic Probability.
5. Some Important Discrete Probability Distributions.
6. The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions.
7. Confidence Interval Estimation.
8. Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One Sample Tests.
9. Two-Sample Tests.
10. Analysis of Variance.
11. Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests.
12. Simple Linear Regression.
13. Introduction to Multiple Regression.
14. Multiple Regression Model Building.
15. Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers.
16. Decision Making.
17. Statistical Applications in Quality and Productivity Management.
Answers to Even-Numbered Problems.

Appendices-
A. Review of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Logarithms.
B. Summation Notation.
C. Statistical Symbols and Greek Alphabet.
D. CD-ROM Contents.
E. Tables.
F. Configuring and Customizing Microsoft Excel for Use with This Text.
G. PHStat2 User's Guide.
H. Preparing Data for Reports and Presentations Using Microsoft Office. Excel Index. Index. CD-ROM Topics.