Teaches students how to apply statistics to real business problems through the authors' unique three-step approach to problem solving. Students learn to identify, compute and interpret the results in the context of the problem.

This text integrates various statistical techniques with concepts from business, economics and finance, and demonstrates the power of statistical methods in the real world of business. This edition places more emphasis on finance, economics and accounting concepts with updated sample data.

A comprehensive textbook on data analysis for business, applied economics and public policy that uses case studies with real-world data.