Essentials of Business Statistics

Essentials of Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers, 3rd Edition, is a textbook designed for a one-semester business statistics course. Rather than focusing on routine number crunching, the text emphasizes communicating with numbers.

Coverage introduces data preparation, data visualization, and numerical descriptive measures before presenting probability concepts and probability distributions. Core inferential topics examine sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, comparisons of means and proportions, regression analysis, and time series forecasting.

Using Microsoft Excel as a central teaching tool, the text incorporates threaded case studies and technical writing exercises to connect quantitative methods to business problems.