Overview: The second edition of Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers provides a unique, innovative, and engaging learning experience for students studying Business Statistics. It is an intellectually stimulating, practical, and visually attractive textbook, from which students can learn and instructors can teach. Throughout the book, the authors have presented the material in an accessible way by using timely business applications to which students can relate. Although the text is application-oriented, it is also mathematically sound and uses notation that is generally accepted for the topic being covered

Part I Introduction Chapter 1 Statistics and Data Part II Descriptive Statistics Chapter 2 Tabular and Graphical Methods Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures Part III Probability Concepts Chapter 4 Basic Probability Concepts Chapter 5 Discrete Probability Distributions Chapter 6 Continuous Probability Distributions Part IV Basic Inference Chapter 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 Interval Estimation Chapter 9 Hypothesis Testing Chapter 10 Statistical Inference Concerning Two Populations Chapter 11 Statistical Inference Concerning Variance Part V Advanced Inference Chapter 12 Chi-Square Tests Chapter 13 Analysis of Variance Chapter 14 Regression Analysis Chapter 15 Inference with Regression Models Chapter 16 Regression Models for Nonlinear Relationships Chapter 17 Regression Models with Dummy Variables Part VI Supplementary Topics Chapter 18 Time Series and Forecasting Chapter 19 Returns, Index Numbers and Inflation Chapter 20 Nonparametric Tests Part VII Appendices Appendix A Statistical Tables Appendix B Solutions to Even-Numbered Exercises Appendix C Glossary