New Features:

• Incorporation of Minitab, including “how to” information in end of chapter computer sections.
• Updated Excel software applications to 2007.
• Added many new and updated problems and exercises throughout, many international in focus.
• Added new cases and examples, updated others.
• Now includes MegaStat® for Excel 2007, an Excel add-in compatible with both Excel 2007 and 2003.

Retained Features:

• Thorough revision of Regression Chapters 10 and 11 to provide students with a simpler, software driven treatment of a difficult topic in business statistics and helps them learn to use Excel in complicated statistical applications.
• Problems and Cases have been updated or replaced to reflect current issues in business.
• Increased number of Excel Minicases to offer students practice in using Excel to solve statistical problems.
• Diverse, real-world problems drawn from current sources, including finance, marketing and sales, government, sports, retail, real estate, etc. There is also a large contingent of international problems in the book.
• Thorough Excel Integration, including Excel output and template solutions in text examples.
• Bundled with Visual Statistics Software: This effective multimedia tool which teaches statistics using multimedia enhanced visuals, is packaged with the text, offering in-text exercises that link to the software. It is integrated to give students the opportunity to have concepts discussed in the text reinforced with graphic enhancement.
• Summary review of terms at the ends of chapters in narrative style to remind students of what they covered and how it's all connected.