Introduction to Business Statistics: A Microsoft Excel Integrated Approach

As with earlier editions, this text fully integrates the use of computers with statistics. This edition has retained the non-intimidating approach to describing the concepts and applications of statistics while giving students the opportunity to observe and actually carry out computer-generated solutions using statistics packages like SPSS and MINITAB, or a spreadsheet package like Excel. The text has also been designed so that those requiring a more traditional calculator-based approach will find an abundance of exercises and examples that can be solved in that manner. A CD-ROM presenting data sets and special Excel macros that Robert Pavur (Professor, U of North Texas) and Kellie Keeling (istant Professor, Virginia Tech) have created will be bound into the back of the book.

I use EXCEL and do not put much effort into teaching the students this software. Having examples in the text with matching EXCEL commands is very valuable to me and a definite plus over any text not having this feature. Having the EXCEL macros is also very convenient. It is important that students have access to friendly software that shows outputs corresponding to standard statistical techniques such as confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and simple linear regression.