The primary goal of Essentials of Business Statistics is to illustrate an accurate view of business statistics in a way that students can easily understand. This is achieved in the following ways: new statistical topics and tools are introduced by using continuing case studies. This approach helps to alleviate student anxiety in learning new concepts and enhances overall comprehension; streamlined and clarified coverage of graphical and numerical methods; new graphically based procedures for finding confidence intervals and performing hypothesis tests; increased emphasis on Excel and MINITAB...