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Product Description For one- or two-term courses in Business Statistics at the undergraduate or graduate level.This hallmark text was the first to thoroughly integrate the use of Microsoft Excel and still provides more Excel coverage than any other textbook. The streamlined coverage (15 chapters) focuses on the concepts of statistics with applications to the functional areas of business. It is rich with applications from accounting, finance, marketing, management and economics. There is significant emphasis on using statistical software as a tool, with most examples presented in a spreadsheet environment. This is the #1 best-selling business statistics text! From the Publisher This is the first business text designed specifically to use Microsoft Excel as a means of teaching statistical business applications. Provides streamlined coverage of a range of statistical topics with a managerial focus. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Educational Philosophy In our many years of teaching introductory statistics courses, we have continually searched for ways to improve the teaching of these courses. Our vision for teaching these introductory business statistics courses has been shaped by active participation in a series of Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business, Decision Sciences Institute, and American Statistical Association conferences as well as the reality of serving a diverse group of students at large universities. Over the years, our vision has come to include these principles: Students need a frame of reference when learning statistics, especially since statistics is not their major. That frame of reference for business students should be the functional areas of business—that is, accounting, economics and finance, information systems, management, and marketing. Each statistical topic needs to be presented in an applied context related to at least one of these fu