Publisher's Synopsis
Designed for business or public administration students this book contains a new approach to the use of statistics in solving business problems. The text demonstrates how statistics can improve all phases of problem solving with an emphasis on time series data and graphics. From the book students will learn about data collection methods, how to plan a survey and communicate statistical results into managerial terms through memos. Bound in with the text is a COM-STAT disk which includes the following Decision Assistant Tools;This book should be of interest to students in business or public administration.