Publisher's Synopsis
This volume aims to show students the usefulness of statistics in the context of real-business problems. Combining an intuitive presentation with pedagogical features, the book teaches students the power of statistics without getting them lost in the theory.;The second edition includes such features as: output and instruction for Minitab, SAS and Execustat; new chapters on statistical quality control and decision analysis; new "Learning with Live Data" sections; early treatment of bivariate data analysis and sampling; and published data in both the examples and exercises.
