Written by Pin T. Ng, Northern Arizona State University. Consists of three major sections: the Objective section summarizes what is expected of a student after reading a chapter; the Overview and Key Concepts section provides an overview of the major topics covered in a chapter and lists the important key concepts; Solutions to Even-Numbered Problems section provides extra detail in the problem solutions.

This comprehensive text presents descriptive and inferential statistics with an assortment of business examples and real data, and an emphasis on decision-making. The accompanying CD-ROM presents Excel and Minitab tutorials as well as data files for all the exercises and exmaples presented.

Student Solutions Manual The Student Solutions Manual contains worked-out solutions to odd-numbered problems in the text. It displays the detailed process that students should use to work through the problems. The manual also provides interpretation of the answers and serves as a valuable learning tool.