Business Statistics in Practice Information Center: What's New


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Business Statistics in Practice, 6/e

Bruce L. Bowerman, Miami University
Richard T. O'Connell, Miami University
Emily S. Murphree, Miami University

What's New

NEW! McGraw-Hill’s Connect uses exercises pulled directly from the textbook to create static and algorithmic questions that can be used for practice, homework, quizzes, and tests.
Continuing case studies that tie together different statistical topics.
Business improvement conclusions that explicitly show how statistical results lead to practical business decisions.
New chapter introductions that list learning objectives and preview the case study analysis to be carried out in each chapter.
A shorter and more intuitive introduction to business statistics in Chapter 1.
A streamlined discussion of the graphical and numerical methods of descriptive statistics in Chapters 2 and 3.
An improved discussion of probability and probability distributions.
A simplified, unique, and more inferentially oriented approach to sampling distributions.
A simpler discussion of confidence intervals employing a more graphical approach.
A simpler and more streamlined discussion of hypothesis testing.
A new and better flowing discussion of simple and multiple regression analysis.
Increased emphasis on Excel (and to some extent, MINITAB) throughout the text.

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