Robert Donnelly’s Business Statistics eliminates the intimidation factor from learning statistics for business. The Second Edition maintains Donnelly’s successful straightforward, conversational approach that explains each concept and why it is important directly to students. Through an abundance of comments that clarify specific topics, a variety of applications, and Your Turn practice throughout each chapter, students see business statistics in action—both in the classroom and in the world around them.

KEY TOPICS: Introduction to Business Statistics; Displaying Descriptive Statistics; Calculating Descriptive Statistics; Introduction to Probabilities; Discrete Probability Distributions; Continuous Probability Distributions; Sampling and Sampling Distributions; Confidence Intervals; Hypothesis Testing with One Population; Hypothesis Testing with Two Population; Analysis of Variance; Chi-Square Tests; One and Two Population Variance Tests; Correlation and Simple Regression; Multiple Regression; Forecasting; Decision Analysis; Nonparametric Statistics

MARKET: For all readers interested in business statistics.