Publisher's Synopsis
Presenting a classic treatment of descriptive and inferential statistics and their applications to business problems, this text emphasizes both decision making and problem solving. The role of computers in modern statistics is incorporated throughout the text. Real cases, examples and problems are included throughout, to result in a text which is easy to read and student orientated. Each chapter ends with a summary and a case study and the answers to all 1200 end-of-section and end-of-chapter exercises have been independently checked for accuracy by a professional statistician. After mastering the ideas presented in this text, the student should feel confident in his or her ability to properly select and apply a decision making procedure.;This book should be of interest to business and economics students taking courses in statistics.
