This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content, which is especially relevant to students outside the United States. Helps students understand the role of statistics in their future careers · New - This edition contains a new Business Analytics Chapter that makes extensive use of JMP and Minitab to illustrate predictive analytics for prediction, classification, clustering, and association, as well as explaining what text analytics does and how descriptive and prescriptive analytics relate to predictive analytics. · Updated - Examples and Using Statistics business scenarios are drawn from all functional areas of business, helping students see how the concepts they''re learning apply to their future careers and providing an applied context for learning. · Project-Detailed Case Studies are included in numerous chapters. The Managing Ashland MultiComm Services continuing case, a team project related to bond funds, and undergraduate and graduate student surveys feature at the end of most chapters, helping to integrate learning across the chapters. · Digital Cases let students examine interactive PDFs to sift through various claims and information, discover the conclusions and claims supported by the data, and identify common misuses of statistical information. Gives students a framework to learn and understand statistical concepts · Updated - This text emphasizes data analysis and the interpretation of the results of a statistical method, rather than focusing on the mathematics of a method.
The 14th Edition includes JMP results, supplementing the Excel and Minitab results from previous editions. · Visual Explorations allow students to interactively explore important statistical concepts in descriptive statistics, the normal distribution, sampling distributions, and regression analysis by using an Excel® add-in workbook and unique Excel integration. · New - Chapters 9 through 15 now include Tabular Summaries that state hypothesis test and regression example results, along with the conclusions that those results support. · Features like Consider This essays and Learn More bubbles provide greater insight into the material and raise important issues about the application of statistical knowledge. Enhances learning with flexible online features and software integration · Integrates Excel with Visual Explorations that demonstrate basic concepts, and designed and implemented PHStat, the Pearson statistical add-in for Excel that places the focus on statistical learning. · An extensive online library of separate topics, sections, and two full chapters allows instructors to tailor these materials to meet their curricular needs, and provides opportunities for additional learning. · New - A First Things First Chapter , available as a complimentary online download, allows students to get a head start on learning and uses real-world examples to illustrate how developments, such as the increasing use of business analytics and "big data," have made knowing and understanding statistics even more important. · Updated - New JMP Guides and updated Excel and Minitab Guides provide detailed, hands-on instructions for using the most recent editions of those programs in business decision making, with templates and applications designed to minimize the frustration of using the software and maximize statistical learning.
The modularized nature of the software allows instructors and students to switch between applications as they use the book. This package includes MyLab(tm) Business Statistics, the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and often improves results for each student. · Deliver trusted content: You deserve teaching materials that meet your own high standards for your course. That''s why we partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that you can trust -- and that keep your students engaged. o StatCrunch , a powerful, web-based statistical software, is integrated into MyLab, so students can quickly and easily analyze data sets from their text and exercises. o Diverse Question Libraries: Build homework assignments, quizzes, and tests to support your course learning outcomes. From Getting Ready (GR) questions to the Conceptual Question Library (CQL), we have your assessment needs covered from the mechanics to the critical understanding of Statistics.
The exercise libraries include technology-led instruction, including new Excel-based exercises, and learning aids to reinforce your students'' success. · Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice, giving all students the support they need -- when and where they need it -- to be successful. o Tutorials and Study Cards for Statistical Software: Tutorials provide brief video walkthroughs and step-by-step instructional study cards on common statistical procedures such as confidence interval estimation, ANOVA, regression, and hypothesis testing. Tutorials and study cards are supplied for Excel 2013 and 2016, Excel with PHStat, JMP, and Minitab. o The Study Plan gives students personalized recommendations, practice opportunities, and learning aids to help them stay on track. · Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you''d like to build your own assignments, teach multiple sections, or set prerequisites, MyLab gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs.
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