Analyze the data, see the business relevance. Reducing the emphasis on doing computations, this practical text thoroughly integrates Microsoft(R) Excel as a tool for analysis and presents statistical concepts in the context of the functional areas of business. The sixth edition focuses on making statistics even more relevant to the business world and builds on the book's hallmark feature of helping readers with the analysis of statistics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Organizing and Visualizing Data 3. Descriptive Statistics 4. Basic Probability 5. Discrete Probability Distributions 6. The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions 7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions 8. Confidence Interval Estimation 9. Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests 10. Two-Sample Tests 11. Analysis of Variance 12. Chi-Square Tests and Non-Parametric Tests 13. Simple Linear Regression 14. Introduction to Multiple Regression 15. Multiple Regression Model Building 16. Time-Series Forecasting 17. Statistical Applications in Quality Management 18. Data Analysis Overview 19. Online Topic: Decision Making