Business Statistics: A First Course has a long history of using diverse business applicaitons to introduce students to core statistical concepts. This edition is focused on making the material accessible and relevant to students through some of the following feautures:

- "Using Statistics" business scenarios open each chapter with an example related to different functional area of business. They are also woven throughout the chapter to illustrate key points and help students make connections to the material.
- The text now includes many more examples from everyday life such as online shopping (Chapter 2), the amount of time it takes to get ready in the morning (Chapter 3), and waiting time at a fast food restaurant (Chapter 9).
- Key formulas are included at the end of each (and in a new supplement).
- Data output from Excel and Minitab 14 featured within chapters, emphasizing data analysis and interpretation.

    Every new copy of this textbook is also packaged with valuable course software. The Student CD-ROM accompanying the book includes:

- PHStat 2--A program containing powerful macros that enhances the capabilities of Excel, allowing the student to perform more statistical analyses.
- Data files for Minitab, Excel, SPSS, and Visual Explorations.

1. Introduction and Data Collection
2. Presenting Data in Tables and Charts
3. Numerical Descriptive Measures
4. Basic Probability
5. Some Important Discrete Probability Distributions
6. The Normal Distribution
7. Sampling Distributions and Sampling
8. Confidence Interval Estimation
9. Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests
10. Two-Sample Tests and One-Way ANOVA

Etc.